Giorgia Kerr
Thesis title: The value of open science pharmaceutical innovation: The collective development of novel treatments for Huntington’s disease
PhD Social Anthropology
- Social Anthropology
- School of Social and Political Science
Contact details
- Email: giorgia.kerr@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Current research interests
Medical anthropology, Value, Innovation in biotechnology, Patient activism, Bioeconomics, Clinical research, Anthropology of pharmaceuticals, Anthropology of waste, ToxicitiyPast project grants
Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship (2020-2023)
Participant
2018
- Australia Anthropological Society Conference, Cairns, Australia
2023
- American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
2024
- European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona, Catalonia
Papers delivered
Kerr, G. (2018). Multi-sited meaning-making, alienation, and (bio)value in genetic testing for Huntington's disease: a methodological critique of medical anthropology. December 5, 2018. Australia Anthropological Society Conference, Cairns, Australia.
Kerr, G. (2023). Value in open science pharmaceutical innovation: The collective development of novel treatments for Huntington’s disease. November 16, 2023. American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Kerr, G. (2024). Tominersen on trial: The ambivalence of novel therapeutics in ongoing clinical trials. July 25, 2024. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona, Catalonia.