麥如村為陽明交通大學生物科技學系助理教授，專長為生物化學、分子生物學、分子病毒學、以及腫瘤生物學，研究目標主要為探討引發癌症的分子機制，並藉以發展新穎性抗癌策略。因大學主修獸醫系，目前教授實驗動物相關課程，持續關注實驗動物在生物醫學研究過程中所衍生的動物福祉與動物權利議題，並逐漸將關懷的範疇擴展至生物科技發展所伴隨的倫理道德争議。期望能籍由介紹這些倫理議題的機會與藝術創作者合作，以藝術為媒介，提供生物科技領域研究學者進行社會人文的關懷與反思，並預想突破性生物科技發展可能造成的影響及爭議，同時喚起社會大眾對相關議題的重視。
Ru-Tsun Mai
Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Ru-Tsun Mai is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. His research expertise includes biochemistry, molecular biology, molecular virology, and cancer biology, focusing on exploring molecular mechanisms that cause cancer and thereby developing novel anti-cancer strategies. With a BS degree in veterinary medicine, he currently teaches laboratory animal-related courses at NCTU and continuingly pays attention to ethical and moral issues regarding animal welfare and animal rights arisen from the processes of biomedical research. Gradually, he expands the scope of interest to the ethical and moral issues derived from the development of biotechnology. By introducing these ethical discussions and cooperating with artist, he hopes to provide the opportunities for social care and reflection to researchers in the field of biotechnology, to envisage the possible impacts and controversies caused by major breakthroughs in biotechnology, and to arouse the public's attention to such issues with the assistance of artistic creations.