Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Silke Schicktanz is Full Professor for Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine at Institut for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Göttingen. From 2006 to March 2010 she was Associate Professor (Junior-Professor) for History, Theory, Ethics in Medicine (positively evaluated in November 2008). She studied Biology and Philosophy at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen from 1991-1997. In January 2002 she attained a doctorate in Ethics of Life Science, thesis title “Medico-Ehical and Animal Ethical Aspects of Xenotransplantation” (summa cum laude). Prof. Schicktanz worked as research assistant at the chair for Ethics in Biosciences at University of Tübingen (1999-2000), she had a Post-Doc-Position as Research Fellow at Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Research Group “Bioethic and science communication” at the Research Centre of Jülich (2002-2003) and at the Institut for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at University of Münster (2004-2005); further as project leader at the first nation wide citizens conference “Disputes in genetic testing”, at Foundation Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden (1/2001 2/2002). Prof. Silke Schicktanz is member of the Advanced Grant evaluation panel at European Research Council in the 7th European Union research master program.