Bang-ook Jun, Biology & Bioethics
Faculty

Bang-ook Jun, Ph.D.

AUSN Visiting Professor of Biology and Bioethics

Former President, and Professor of Biology, Gangneung National University, Korea

Former President, Asian Bioethics Association

Former Vice-President for Korea, Asian Bioethics Association

Former Visiting Professor, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Canada

Featured AUSN Video lectures (Youtube links)

Burning the bridges between Neuroethics and Bioethics?

Eradicating mosquitoes? The promise and peril of gene drive technology

Ethics of Human Gene-Editing

CRISPR babies and the regulation of human germline editing

Reflection on the bone marrow donation to Sung-Duk Bauman  

Education

Ph.D. in Botany, Seoul National University, Korea1986.

 

Academic Appointments

Featured Publications

“Ethical Issues on the Human Embryonic Genome Editing”

“The Ethics of Therapeutic Gene Editing Research.”

His main research focus is on the ethics of emerging biotechnologies.