Jantina de Vries is founding and current director of the Ethics Lab and Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. She works in the field of ethics, and is especially interested in the ethics of new and emerging health technologies in AI, genomics and neuroscience. She is also very interested to understand better how ideas and experiences from the African continent can and should inform our ethics. This is the work that the EthicsLab tries to foster.

Jantina was a member of the WHO Genome Editing Expert Advisory Committee, a member of the H3Africa Steering Committee and the founding Chair of the H3Africa Working Group on Ethics. She led the development of many ethics guidelines for genomics research that are used across the African continent. She is a member of the Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research. She currently is helping establish the UCT AI Initiative.

Jantina obtained her DPhil through The Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford (2011), and an undergraduate degree in sociology at Wageningen University (2003). She has published over 150 articles in international peer reviewed journals.