Ibon Santiago is a Humboldt research fellow at the Technical University of Munich, where he works in biophysics and DNA nanotechnology. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford. He is an alumnus of the Barcelona Science & Technology Diplomacy Hub School on Science Diplomacy and a member of the Science Policy working group of the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology (Euroscience).
As modern technologies are bringing truly personalized precision medicine closer to reality, authors argue in favor of international efforts to regulate the collection and handling of genomic data to address ethical and privacy concerns.