Dr Oliver Feeney (PhD) is a researcher in the Ethics of Genome Editing Research Unit, Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany, and associate researcher with the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, Discipline of Philosophy, University of Galway. His primary research is on ethical, legal, and social (justice) implications of biomedical technologies, particularly the ethics and governance of genome editing; ethics of human enhancement; polarisation and trust in science and medicine, and the ethical and social justice considerations of patents in new gene editing technologies.