Dr Chris Gyngell is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His research interests lie primarily in bioethics, the philosophy of psychiatry and moral theory. He has a PhD in Philosophy, and degrees in Applied Ethics and Human Genetics, all from the Australian National University.
As the lead researcher of a project entitled ‘Selecting, Creating and Modifying Embryos’, he is currently investigating the ethical, political and legal implications of new reproductive technologies such as the gene editing technique CRISPR/Cas9. This research is funded by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships scheme.