Pascal Borry, PhD, is post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine, K.U.Leuven (Belgium). His research interests are in the areas of the ethical, legal and social aspects of genetics and genomics. His main publications focus on genetic testing and screening relevant to newborn, children, and adolescents; biobanking; direct-to-consumer genetic testing; and, the relation between empirical and normative approaches in bioethics. He worked in the ethics unit of the E.U.-funded Network of Excellence Eurogentest (www.eurogentest.org) and was workpackage leader in the research project Genebanc (Genetic bio and dataBanking: Confidentiality and protection of data. Towards a European harmonisation and policy (www.genebanc.eu)). He acts as the programme coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics (www.masterbioethics.org). Since 2009 he is member of the Professional and Public Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics. (https://www.eshg.org/120.0.html) In 2006, Pascal Borry received the triennal prize for biomedical ethics ‘Professor Roger Borghgraef’. He has been a visiting scholar at the Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, US), Université de Montreal and McGill University.