Melinda Bonnie Fagan is Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She has an interdisciplinary background, originally trained in biology (BA 1992, Williams College; PhD 1998, Stanford University), then philosophy (MA 2002, University of Texas at Austin), culminating in history and philosophy of science (PhD 2007, Indiana University). Her research focuses on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and social epistemology of science. She is the author of Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Elements in the Philosophy of Biology: Stem Cells (Cambridge, 2021), and many journal articles, book chapters, and commentaries on various topics in philosophy of science and biology.