Dr Richard Milne is Senior Social Scientist in the Society and Ethics Research Group at the Wellcome Genome Campus and Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. His research focusses on social and ethical questions associated with the development of new medical technologies, particularly related to dementia and genomic medicine. He co-leads the ELSI theme within the Cambridge Centre for Public Health, and ELSI work within the IMI EPAD and Early Detection of Neurodegeneration (EDoN) projects. He is currently working on a Wellcome Trust-funded study of how experts and members of the public address ethical questions associated with the development of data-driven tools for the detection of cognitive decline.