Virginia Sanchini (°1987), Ph.D., is Post Doctoral Fellow at University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, working on a project entitled "The concept of vulnerability in the ageing population: technological innovations and ethical considerations" within the broader Fondazione Cariplo Project entitled "Enhancing Social Innovation in Elderly Care: values, practices and policies" (InnovaCare). Since March 2018 she is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven.

Virginia also teaches Clinical Ethics as Adjunct Professor at the University of Milan, she is faculty member of the Folsatec PhD programme at SEMM and, together with Prof. Massimo Reichlin, she is in charge of the bioethics unit at the Center of Ethics and Politics (CESEP) of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

After graduating in philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, she completed a PhD in Foundations & Ethics of the Life Sciences (Folsatec) at the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM) and University of Milan, working on the topics of informed consent for research biobanks, clinical ethics consultation, and deliberation in bioethics.

In a research ethics consultancy role, she has been involved, since 2015, with the Center for Advanced Technology in Health and Wellbeing of San Raffaele Research Institute in Milan, analysing the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications in the development of digital technologies and e-services, especially in healthcare settings.

Since 2018, she is also Senior Bioethicist at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in the Horizon 2020 project on "Predicting Effective Adaptation to Breast Cancer to Help Women to BOUNCE Back" (BOUNCE).

(January 2019)

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