Dr. Rami Major is embarking on a one-year fellowship in the legislative branch, where I’ll work with a U.S. Representative or Senator on science policy initiatives as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow (STPF), sponsored by the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
Rami is a former postdoctoral fellow in the ELSI of Precision Medicine and Other Biotechnologies. This fellowship was jointly sponsored by the Center for The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biotechnologies (ELSI@UNC), the Center for Bioethics (C:B), and the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH). She graduated from Clemson University where she majored in Genetics, participating in bench research, ethics initiatives, and policy programs. She then went on to get her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her project focused on CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing optimization and the ethical implications of prenatal human gene editing. While in graduate school, she led the Science Policy and Advocacy Group and was involved in many science communication and outreach initiatives. Rami is interested in the ethical and policy implications of emerging technologies, particularly as they relate to accessibility. In her role as a post-doctoral fellow, she hopes to build on previous work related to human gene editing ethics and explore other bioethics questions related to neuroscience and genetic testing. She is looking forward to delving more into the clinical ethics space to learn how ethical and healthcare policy considerations factor into patient care and clinical trial administration. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new restaurants, reading, and cheering on the Buffalo Bills.
