Our team

Founder

Director

Itziar de Lecuona
Director of the Bioethics and Law Observatory at the University of Barcelona. PhD in Law and Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. Professor, Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Coordinator of the Consolidate Research Group “Bioethics, Law and Society: Interdisciplinary analysis of ethical, legal and social aspects of biomedicine, biotechnology and emerging technologies” (BIOELSi) (SGR 00353) of the Government of Catalonia. Codirector of the Master in Bioethics and Law and the Master in Food Ethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. Member of the University of Barcelona's Bioethics Commission, the Ethics Committee of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), the COVID-19 Multidisciplinary Working Group, Ministry of Science and Innovation (2020-2022), the Research Ethics Committee at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (2012-2020), and the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia (2015-2020). Leader of the Work Packages on ethics and socioeconomic aspects of two European projects in biomedical research: MICROB-PREDICT and DECISION. Part of the group of experts advising the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

Board of Directors

Fabiola Leyton
PhD in Philosophy and Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. Postdoctoral researcher at the Bioethics and Law Observatory. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona. Editor of the Bioethics and Law Journal (Revista de Bioética y Derecho) of the University of Barcelona. Teacher of the Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. 

Manuel Jesús López Baroni
PhD in Philosophy and PhD in Law. Secretary of the Bioethics and Law Observatory of the University of Barcelona. Codirector of the Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Pablo de Olavide University.

Gemma Marfany
PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona. Full Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona. Rector's Delegate for Science Dissemination. Director of the Research Group "Human Molecular Genetics" of the University of Barcelona. Teacher of the Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. 

María José Plana
PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona. Assistant Professor of Law at the Wageningen University (WUR). Codirector of the Master in Food Ethics and Law of the University of Barcelona.

Josep Santaló
Professor of Cellular Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, specialized in reproduction. Teacher of the Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona. Former President of the Biosecurity Commission and of the Ethics Committee on Animal and Human Experimentation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Member of the Working Group for the study and ethical reflection on biomedical research of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia (Ministry of Health, Government of Catalonia), and the Hinxton Group: An International Consortium on Stem Cells, Ethics and Law. Co-editor and Head of the journal Medicina Reproductiva y Embriología Clínica.

Members of the Consolidate Research Group “Bioethics, Law and Society: Interdisciplinary analysis of ethical, legal and social aspects of biomedicine, biotechnology and emerging technologies”