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John Noel Viaña John Noel Viaña

Postdoctoral fellow - The Australian National University
Australia

Bioethics - Medical ethics, Biology, Medicine

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John Noel M. Viaña is a postdoctoctoral fellow in responsible innovation in precision health at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University and a visiting scientist at the Responsible Innovation Future Science Platform, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. He finished his PhD in Neuroethics (Society and Culture) at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Master's in Neuroscience degree at the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Bordeaux. He also has a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He was a  short-term visiting student at the Neurophilosophy, Medical Ethics, and Neuroethics group at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; the Department of Philosophy and Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington; Neuroethics Canada at the University of British Columbia; and at the Brain and Mental Health Laboratory at Monash University. He has completed the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics at Yale University in 2017.



Dr. Viana's current research focus is on equity and diversity considerations in biomedical/health innovation and policy. His PhD research was on the ethical, legal, and social implications of novel neurosurgical interventions for Alzheimer's disease. Aside from performing ethics research on neurosurgery for AD, he has also conducted work and published on media portrayals of 3D bioprinting and brain-computer interfaces, communication of the Human Brain Project, ethical issues in psychiatric applications of decoded neurofeedback, phenomenological effects of deep brain stimulation, and the implications of psychiatric genomics.