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Role Group Leader / Snr Princ Research Fellow
Research area Stem Cell Medicine

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Megan Munsie PhD is a highly experienced interdisciplinary researcher who combines her scientific expertise with a deep understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of stem cell science and its clinical translation. Her work focuses on understanding community attitudes and expectation in regenerative medicine and other emerging technologies, and the development of policy and professional standards to enable responsible translation of stem cell and related research. Findings from her research have influenced policy reforms at a national and international level, and informed the design and delivery of educational resources for patients, healthcare professionals and the general public for over a decade.
She has been involved in stem cell research since the mid 1990s, has led public education and policy activities for a series of major Australian Government funded programs in stem cell science, and currently heads the preparedness program for the international Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW). She is also a Professor of Emerging Technology (Stem Cells) at the Melbourne Medical School and co-lead of the University of Melbourne Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation.
Megan is Vice President of the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research and serves on advisory committees to peak national and international bodies including the International Society for Stem Cell Research and International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy. She has extensive experience in biotechnology and has also worked for ten years as a clinical embryologist in Australian IVF clinics. She completed her Masters and PhD at Monash University and her science degree at the Queensland University of Technology.
Megan Munsie PhD is a highly experienced interdisciplinary researcher who combines her scientific expertise with a deep understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of stem cell science and its clinical translation. Her work focuses...
Megan Munsie PhD is a highly experienced interdisciplinary researcher who combines her scientific expertise with a deep understanding of the ethical, legal and societal implications of stem cell science and its clinical translation. Her work focuses on understanding community attitudes and expectation in regenerative medicine and other emerging technologies, and the development of policy and professional standards to enable responsible translation of stem cell and related research. Findings from her research have influenced policy reforms at a national and international level, and informed the design and delivery of educational resources for patients, healthcare professionals and the general public for over a decade.
She has been involved in stem cell research since the mid 1990s, has led public education and policy activities for a series of major Australian Government funded programs in stem cell science, and currently heads the preparedness program for the international Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW). She is also a Professor of Emerging Technology (Stem Cells) at the Melbourne Medical School and co-lead of the University of Melbourne Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation.
Megan is Vice President of the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research and serves on advisory committees to peak national and international bodies including the International Society for Stem Cell Research and International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy. She has extensive experience in biotechnology and has also worked for ten years as a clinical embryologist in Australian IVF clinics. She completed her Masters and PhD at Monash University and her science degree at the Queensland University of Technology.

Top Publications

  • Hoeyer, K, Couturier, A, Barawi, K, Drew, C, Grundtvig, A, Lane, E, Munk, AK, Whiteley, LE, Munsie, M. Searching for information about stem cells online in an age of artificial intelligence: How should the stem cell community respond?. Stem Cell Reports 2024
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  • de Graeff, N, De Proost, L, Munsie, M. ‘Ceci n’est pas un embryon?’ The ethics of human embryo model research. Nature Methods 20(12) : 1863 -1867 2023
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  • Lieschke, K, Scott, V, Delatycki, MB, Lewis, S, Munsie, M, Tanner, C, Corben, LA. How Great a Risk Do You Take? A Qualitative Study Exploring Attitudes of Individuals with Friedreich Ataxia Toward Gene Therapy. Human Gene Therapy 34(19-20) : 1041 -1048 2023
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  • Ikonomou, L, Cuende, N, Forte, M, Grilley, BJ, Levine, AD, Munsie, M, Rasko, JEJ, Turner, L, Bidkhori, HR, Ciccocioppo, R, et al. International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy Position Paper: Key considerations to support evidence-based cell and gene therapies and oppose marketing of unproven products. Cytotherapy 25(9) : 920 -929 2023
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  • Gyngell, C, Munsie, M, Fujita, M, Thiessen, C, Savulescu, J, Konstantinov, I. Ethical analysis of the first porcine cardiac xenotransplantation. Journal of Medical Ethics jme-2022-108685 2023
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