Giuseppe Testa, European Institute of Oncology and European School of Molecular Medicine
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 1:00 am EDT
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Place: 337 Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Giuseppe Testa is an M.D./Ph.D. who runs a cloning/epigenetics laboratory in Milan, Italy, and who also has been trained and does research in science studies. A few years ago he was awarded the Branca Weiss fellowship, which allowed him to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to life sciences and their place in society. In Milan, he started a Ph.D. Program in the Foundations of Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences. He describes the main focus of his STS research as “how genes and cell lineages become visible, mobile and political elements in the public sphere.”