Herbert Gottweis is professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Vienna since 1998, and research associate at the BIOS Centre, London School of Economics (LSE), and at SATSU (Science and Technology Studies Unit), York University. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna (1984), was a visiting graduate student at the University of Rochester (1982/83), Assistant and Lecturer at the political science department, University of Salzburg (1985-1997), visiting research fellow (supported by a FWF Erwin Schrödinger Stipend) at the Centre of European Studies, Harvard University (1989/90), visiting research fellow (supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation) at MIT’s program in Science, Technology, and Society (1992/93), assistant professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University (1993-95), visiting professor, Department of Social Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1997) and visiting Professor at the Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University (2004).

 Since the early 1990s, Richard Hindmarsh has significantly contributed to pioneering the Australian field of biotechnology and society studies, and has produced an extensive body of work in the life sciences area with over 100 academic and lay publications. He has a BSc(First Class Hons) in environmental social sciences, a PhD (with distinction) in science, technology & society studies, and an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship.
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 Jeantine Lunshof has been investigating the bioethical aspects of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics since 2002. The combination of her training in philosophy and health law, her interdisciplinary involvement with genetics since 1988, and her clinical experience in oncology nursing in a research setting will enable her to make a multifaceted contribution to this project.
  Position and funding: Starting in January 2006, Lunshof will be holding a 50% position VUmc, section Community Genetics, on behalf of the Dept. of Clinical Genetics & Human Genetics, the Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacy, and of the Dept. of Ethics and Philosophy of Life.

 Ursula Naue studied Political Science and Communication Science at the University of Vienna and received her Master’s degree in Political Science in 2003. She is currently finishing her doctorate in the field of disability politics and expected to earn her PhD degree in Political Science in January 2006. Naue also has a Master’s degree in Prehistory and Cultural Anthropology (1986) and a PhD in Prehistory (1991). She recently participated in a project contracted by the European Federation of Journalists on the topic of journalism in transition countries (in 2003). Since July 2004, she has been working on a project on “Disability, identity and politics”, funded by the Jubiläumsfonds of the Austrian National Bank. Starting in fall 2005, she will teach courses in policy analysis and disability politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna. Due to Naue´s experience in research and coordination of various projects in different scientific, theoretical and methodological contexts, she will be a valuable researcher in the proposed project.

 studied Political Science at the University of Vienna. For her PhD thesis on the regulation of embryonic stem cell research and human cloning in Israel, she was awarded the “Best Dissertation 2003/04” prize by the Austrian Political Science Association. After finishing her doctoral work, she became a post-doctoral researcher in a GEN-AU/ELSA Project on “Biobanks and the Governance of Biomedical Research” (January 2004-December 2005). In 2002, Prainsack was a research fellow at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and became a lecturer in comparative politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna. Prainsack collaborates on different projects with scholars in the USA, Israel, UK, and other parts of Europe, and is a member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Theoretical Perspectives in Policy Analysis.
December 2004: “Best political science dissertation 2003/2004”, awarded by the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA/ÖGPW).
Since January 2006: Director of the international project “Genes without borders - towards global genomic governance” at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture´s GEN-AU (Genomeresearch in Austria) ELSA (Ethical Legal and Social Aspects) programme.
Since autumn 2006 she is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Personalized Medicine.
In May 2007, the science magazine "Heureka" included Barbara in the "Austria Top 30” of young academics of all disciplines. (http://www.falter.at/heureka/) (in German).

 Reardon has extensive experience conducting ethnographic research aimed at understanding the formation of genomics as a novel form of technoscientific and political practice. Her book, Race to the Finish (2005), has been recognized by scientists and policy makers alike as an important contribution to our understanding of the novel questions of governance and identity posed by genomics.

 Nikolas Rose is James Martin White Professor of Sociology and Convenor of the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the Director of the LSE's Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, funded in 2003. From 1996 to 2005 he was managing editor of Economy and Society, one of Britain's leading scholarly interdisciplinary journals of social sciences. He is Editor of BioSocieties: An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences, published for the LSE by Cambridge University Press and Editor, with Paul Rabinow, of a CUP book series, Society and the Life Sciences. He has published widely on the social and political history of the human sciences, on the genealogy of subjectivity, on the history of empirical thought in sociology, and on changing rationalities and techniques of political power, and he has also published in law and criminology. His work has been translated into German, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Chinese. His current research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience, and its social, ethical, cultural and legal implications.