Professor Bobbie Farsides

Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics

Professor Bobbie Farsides is a former Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Her research focuses on the experience of healthcare professionals and scientists working in ethically contested fields, and she works with colleagues in fetal medicine, assisted reproduction, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, stem cell science and organ transplantation. More recently she has focused on genomic medicine and is currently working with families affected by rare disease to capture their experience of the genomic agenda. She has acted as a specialist adviser to the UK Parliament's House of Lords, and she chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Party on Children and Clinical Research. Bobbie is also Co-PI of the Wellcome Trust funded EPPIGEN project with Professor Anneke Lucassen, Oxford University.