Pascal Borry

Pascal Borry is a full professor of bioethics at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (University of Leuven, Belgium). His main research activities are concentrated on the ethical, legal and social implications of innovative technologies. He published among other issues on topics such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, public health genomics, biobanking, research on human tissue, genetic testing, preconceptional screening and neonatal screening, and sport ethics. He published more than 200 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He is programme director of the Master of Bioethics and teaches medical ethics to medical students.

He was a member of the Flemish Commission on neonatal screening (2012-2020) and expert of the Belgian Superior Health Council (2014-2020), and is currently a member of the Belgian Consultative Committee on Bioethics (2014-2018,2019-2024). Within the European Society of Human Genetics he was member of the Professional and Public Policy Committee (2009-2016) and elected member of the board (2012-2017). He is a member of the Research Ethics Committee of UZ/KU Leuven (2018-2021, 2022-2025). He was a member of the Ethics Expert Group of the World Anti-Doping Agency (2016-2020) and is currently a member of the WADA Independent Ethics Board (2022-2025). Since 2020 he is chair of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care of the University of Leuven.