Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Ethics Unit/Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University

Jonathan Kimmelman holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and is Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics Unit / Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. His research centers on the ethics of translational clinical research – especially involving novel medical interventions like gene transfer and cell transplantation. Major publications have appeared in Lancet, BMJ, Nature Reviews – Genetics, Hastings Center Report, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. His book, Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human Experiments (Cambridge Press, 2009), is the first full-length analysis of the ethics of translational clinical research and has been described as "set[ing] a new standard for bioethical scholarship that is at once scientifically well-grounded, politically astute, philosophically original, and a pleasure to read." Kimmelman won the 2006 Maud Menten New Investigator Prize (Institute of Genetics) and received a CIHR New Investigator Salary Award from in 2008. He chairs the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, and serves as a member of the Priority and Planning Committee of the Institute of Genetics Ethics, Law, and Society program. He also serves on the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (U.S.) Gene and Cell Therapy Data Safety Monitoring Board.