Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Silke Schicktanz

Professor of Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine, University Medical Center Göttingen

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Silke Schicktanz has been Professor of Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen since 2010. She has been researching and teaching on the ethical challenges of personalized medicine for many years. She develops ethically sound, methodical approaches to promote dialog between science, medical practice and the public. In order to bring the experiences and interests of patients into the discourse, she has established methods of empirical ethics and uses them in research. In CAIMed, she is interested in the development of AI-supported methods for the bioethical discourse, among other things. She also wants to use systematic interdisciplinary exchange to research how ethical and social risks of AI in medicine can be recognized and minimized at an early stage.