We are pleased to announce that Professor Elena Postigo Solana has been appointed President of the International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune (ICBJL), succeeding Professor Mónica López Barahona, to whom we express our deepest gratitude for her exemplary leadership and dedicated service since 2009.
Professor Postigo, a distinguished scholar and educator in the field of Bioethics, will continue advancing the Chair’s mission of education, research, and public engagement in Bioethics, always grounded in a realistic vision centered on the dignity of every human life.
Founded in Madrid in 2009 by the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, the International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune has become an internationally recognized center of excellence in Bioethics. Inspired by the legacy of Professor Jérôme Lejeune, the Chair combines medical expertise with ethical reflection to address the contemporary challenges facing Bioethics.
The Chair offers university-level international academic programs in collaboration with European and American universities. These include an official Master’s Degree in Bioethics and postgraduate diploma programs in Bioethics and in Genetics and Bioethics. This academic year, the Chair launches the fifth edition of its Official Master’s Degree in Bioethics in collaboration with Francisco de Vitoria University; the first French-language Master’s Degree in Bioethics; the Jérôme Lejeune Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics; the Postgraduate Diploma in Genetics and Bioethics; and the Course in Natural Restoration of Male Fertility and Bioethics, offered in collaboration with the University of Padua (Italy). In addition, the Chair organizes international conferences, Bioethics training programs for schools, and publishes academic works and reports on current bioethical issues.
With this new chapter, we reaffirm our commitment to remaining a trusted voice in the academic and cultural dialogue on Bioethics, with particular dedication to the protection of vulnerable individuals with genetically based intellectual disabilities.
Brief Biography of Professor Elena Postigo Solana
Elena Postigo Solana earned her degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and received her Ph.D. in Bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 2000.
She has taught Bioethics in Rome, at the University of Navarra, and at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. She currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Bioethics at Francisco de Vitoria University, where she also directs the Institute of Bioethics. In addition, she is a visiting professor in several official Master’s programs in Bioethics in Spain and abroad.
Professor Postigo is the author and co-editor of several books and has published numerous scholarly articles on the foundations of Bioethics and specialized bioethical issues. In recent years, her research has focused on transhumanism, its theoretical foundations and bioethical implications, as well as the Bioethics of Emerging Technologies applied to the human person.
She serves on the Scientific Committee of the University Center for Bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Bioethics and Medical Ethics (AEBI). She is also a Research Scholar with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights in Rome.
Since 2015, Professor Postigo has served as Academic Director of the International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune in Madrid. She was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford in 2006 and 2012, served as Vice Rector for Research at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid from 2009 to 2011, and has been a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2005.
