Tamra Lysaght's Biography

Tamra Lysaght, Assistant Professor , National University of Singapore

Dr Lysaght is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie broadly in the ethical, sociopolitical and regulatory issues surrounding stem cell science and the clinical translation of regenerative medicines and genomics. She has expertise is in empirical ethics and experience in using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and has worked on policy issues with the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation, the Technical Working Group on Ethics at the World Health Organization and the Translational Clinical Research Programme of the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore, and the Human Health Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency. She is currently working on the ethics and regulation of cell therapies and translational medicine in Asia and Australasia.