Demetrio Neri

Prof. Demetrio Neri is Full Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Messina (Italy).

He is also Co-editor of “Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare” (Milano).

He is Member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee (Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica, Roma). He served as member of the ad hoc Commission on stem cells research appointed by the Minister of Health Umberto Veronesi (known as the Dulbecco Commission).

He is also the author of about forty papers on various bioethical problems, particularly regarding the beginning and the end of human life, the new reproductive technologies and the genetic interventions on the human genome.

His last book is: "Bioethics in Laboratory. Stem cells, cloning and human health," preface by Rita Levi-Montalcini, Rome, 2001.