Christian Haddad holds a Professorship in the social studies of medicine, planetary health, and biopolitics at the University of Vienna, jointly affiliated with the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Department of Sociology.

His research focuses on the political (bio-)economies of pharmaceutical and biomedical innovation, with longstanding expertise in the social studies of health, medicine, and emerging biotechnologies.

He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant ALTERBIOTIC which examines the ‘innovation challenges’ of developing new antibiotic therapies. Considering the global antibiotics R&D crisis, the project investigates industry strategies and policy efforts to develop radically new, alternative approaches to treating bacterial infections. It conceptualizes antimicrobial resistance as a multi-faceted crisis of modern biopolitics which puts into question dominant regimes of health, growth, and security, which have long depended on the chemical infrastructures of readily available and effective pharmaceuticals.

For more information, you can visit Christian’s institutional profile.

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