UC San Francisco Humanities & Social Sciences in the School of Medicine
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
Dr. Julia Brown is an anthropologist and bioethicist who examines lived experiences and social value-making around controversial biotechnologies. She is currently exploring the ethics of prenatal gene technologies, including the emergence of prenatal gene editing. She is author of The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk conditions (Routledge 2022).
Dr. Brown was one of the Kavli Center's inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows where she workshopped her research findings on the complex intersection between scientific, clinical, patient, and societal values. This included designing...
Colin Hoy is a neuroscientist working as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Neurology Department of the University of California, San Francisco, where he studies the neural basis of self-control and decision-making to understand cognitive and emotional symptoms in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and depression. His neuroscience research combines computational models of behavior with brain recordings and stimulation from implanted neural devices to identify and modulate the neural circuits and signals that help control behavior in pursuit of goals. Colin’s long-term goal...
Affiliated Faculty; Rita Allen Civic Science Fellow
University of San Francisco, Department of Neuroscience
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
Narayan Sankaran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco in the Neuroscience Department where his research spans both neuroscience and neuroethics. As a neuroscientist, his research seeks a mechanistic account of how the human auditory system enables perception of complex sounds – such as music and speech. To do this, he combines computational modeling, machine learning, and human neurophysiological measurements at different spatial scales using both intracranial and scalp-based recording techniques. As a neuroethicist, his research considers the ethical and...
