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In connection with a new article out in European Journal for Philosophy of Science, philosopher Vincenzo Politi presents a qualitative study on collective social responsibility in research. Politi’s case study is from PINpOINT, where he was a postdoc associated with the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) work package. His article focuses on who in a project should be thinking about the impacts of the project’s research. Below is an interview with Vincenzo about his role and his experience as an embedded philosopher in PINpOINT. 

The PINpOINT project (Pipeline for individually tailoring new treatments in hematological cancers) has developed methods for drug sensitivity screening in several cancers, now used to stratify patients into trials, and established pipelines for data analysis. They have published some 30 papers, given a large number of talks, and held numerous meetings and other events.