Soren Holm

Soren Holm is a prominent bioethicist and philosopher of medicine. He holds a chair in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Holm holds a masters degree in health care ethics from the University of Manchester and two doctoral degrees in medical ethics from the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is a member of the Council’s Working Party on Emerging biotechnologies (report to be published autumn 2012).

Holm and John Harris co-authored a seminal paper in Nature that challenged the value of the precautionary principle in modern scientific research.