John R. Quain is an Ethics Fellow in the Bioethics Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. His work in ethics has focused in particular on bioethical issues related to the application of genetic research, from food and agriculture to the treatment of human diseases. On germline and genetic engineering, Quain has presented papers at meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the World Congress of Bioethics, and at the Disruption in Bioethics conference at the Ethox Centre, Oxford. Prior to his work in bioethics, Quain reported on science and technology issues for publications ranging from The New York Times to Rolling Stone and Esquire. He was also the on-air network TV technology contributor for CBS News Up to the Minute, and a recipient of a Paris Accords of Science Communication fellowship. Quain has a MA in bioethics from New York University, a Master of Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, and is currently completing his dissertation on the ethics of genetic therapies