Pei Koay
Program Manager, Biotechnology History & Policy
Pei Koay earned a Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech in the political and policy studies track; an M.A. in the history and philosophy of science, medicine, and technology from the University of Toronto, with a concentration in the history of biomedicine; and a B.A. in science, technology, and society from the New School for Social Research. Before joining CHF as the program manager for biotechnology history and policy, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University’s Humanities Research Center. She was also a Lingnan Foundation Teaching Scholar at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science Technology and Society in Graz, Austria.
Her work examines and explores institutional changes for medicine, public health, and life sciences as they coalesce under the banner of “personalized genomic medicine”; social and political aspects of race, gender, and the life sciences; the production of expertise and authority in bioscience and biomedical science, technology, and medicine; and historical, social, and political aspects of nature-nurture debates.