Rate My Professor Pascal Borry

Borry is the programme director of the Master of Bioethics and teaches medical ethics to medical students at KU Leuven. He leads a research group of more than 10 researchers. Throughout his career, he has held significant committee roles, including membership in the Belgian Consultative Committee on Bioethics (2014-2018 and 2019-2024), the Research Ethics Committee of UZ/KU Leuven (2018-2021 and 2022-2025), and the Independent Ethics Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency (2022-2025). He previously served as an elected member of the board of the European Society of Human Genetics (2012-2017), member of its Professional and Public Policy Committee (2009-2016), member of the Flemish Commission on neonatal screening (2012-2020), and expert of the Belgian Superior Health Council (2014-2020). His achievements have earned him major awards such as the triennial Professor Roger Borghgraef Prize for biomedical ethics (2006), the Innovation Prize of the Dutch Association for Community Genetics and Public Health Genomics (2014), the prize of the Dutch Society for Bioethics (2015), and the Science Communication Award of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (2015). Borry has been a visiting scholar at Case Western Reserve University, Université de Montréal, and VU Medical Center Amsterdam, and serves as Invited Scholar at the Center for Genomics and Policy of McGill University.