Professor Catherine Waldby is Research Professor in the School of Sociology and former Director (2015-2021) of the Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. Her researches focuses on social studies of biomedicine and the life sciences. Her recent books include Clinical Labour: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (with Melinda Cooper, Duke University Press 2014) and The Oocyte Economy: the changing meanings of human eggs (Duke University Press 2019). With Nikolas Rose and Hannah Landecker, she is the editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for the social studies of life sciences. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a member of the History and Philosophy committee of the Academy of Science.  She has received national and international research grants for her work on stem cells, blood donation and biobanking.