The Hastings Center for Bioethics is pleased to announce the election of the 2025 Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of about 300 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology.
Jean Cadigan, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Social Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research and its translation to clinical care. Her recent work has examined governance challenges in biobanking and in human genome editing research, and she is currently co-PI of a study investigating ethical issues associated with the use of polygenic scores for social traits. She has also conducted research aimed at improving clinical ethics education for medical trainees. She serves on the leadership team for UNC’s Center for the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biotechnology.