Dr Calum MacKellar

Director of Research
Scottish Council on Bioethics

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Biography

After completing his Diplome D'Ingenieure with the University of Strasbourg, France, and his doctorate in Biochemistry with the University of Stuttgart in Germany, Dr. Mackellar began working in 1991 with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland synthesising new genetic antivirals against HIV as a post-doctoral research fellow. In 1993, he continued his research in a Biotechnology company in Glasgow for more than four year, during which time he also worked for the international journal Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics which changed its title in 2012 to become The New Bioethics. His continued association with this journal has resulted in him becoming an associate editor.
In 1997, Dr. Mackellar began teaching Biological Chemistry and Bioethics at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, returning to Strasbourg in France, in 2001, to work as a senior civil servant with the Bioethics Division of the Council of Europe. In 2003, he returned to Scotland as the Director of Research of the Scottish Council on Bioethics.
As well as being a Fellow with the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University in Chicago, USA, he has been a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor in Bioethics, since 2010, at St Mary's University in London.

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Publications

The Ethics of the New Eugenics

2014
Co-authors: Christopher Bechtel

Chimera's Children

2012
Co-authors: David A Jones (eds.)