Abbreviated Biographies of Symposium Participants
W. French Anderson:
Dr. Anderson is Director of Gene Therapy Laboratories and professor of biochemistry and pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. It was Dr. Anderson’s pioneering efforts that led to the first human genetic engineering trials in 1991. Dr. Anderson holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He has published extensively, holds many Board and Editorial positions, and is Editor-in-Chief of Human Gene Therapy.
Andrea L. Bonnicksen:
Andrea Bonnicksen is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Bonnicksen has written various articles on preimplantation genetic diagnosis of human embryos, germline therapy, and other reproductive issues. She is the author of In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures (Columbia University Press, 1989), co-editor of Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, and a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Mario Capecchi:
Dr. Capecchi received his doctorate from Harvard University and is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Human Genetics in the Department of Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Utah. His techniques for generating mice with specific targeted genes inactivated ("knock-out" mice) established a new way of exploring how genes work in mammals. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and his honors include the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for distinquished achievement in neuroscience, and the 1996 Kyoto Prize.
John Fletcher:
John Fletcher received his Ph.D from the Union Theological Seminary (NYC). He researched his dissertation, "A Study of the Ethics of Medical Research", at the Clinical Center of the NIH, where he later served as the first chief of its bioethics program. In 1980, French Anderson and he coauthored an influential article on criteria for any trial of human gene therapy. He was one of the first in bioethics to explore the issues of germline gene therapy. In 1993 he was named Kornfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia.
Leroy Hood:
Dr. Hood received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Ph.D. from Cal Tech. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1982, and co-edited The Code of Codes (Harvard 1993). Dr. Hood was the Bowles professor of Biology at Caltech until he joined the University of Washington in 1992 as the William Gates professor of Biomedical Sciences and founding chair of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology.
Daniel Koshland, Jr.:
Dr. Koshland received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. A professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley since 1965, Dr. Koshland was the editor of PNAS from 1980 to 1985 and of Science magazine from 1985 to 1995. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1979. Among his many honors are the Waterford Prize from the Scripps Institute and the National Medal of Science.
Michael Rose:
Dr. Rose received his doctorate from the University of Sussex, and is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the School of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine. He is the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging (1991 Oxford Univ. Press), and co-edited Genetics and Evolution of Aging with Caleb Finch. Dr. Rose’s major research focus has been experimental tests of evolutionary theories of aging and fitness.
Lee Silver:
Dr. Silver received his doctorate from Harvard University. He is currently a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology where he conducts research in mammalian genetics, evolution, reproduction, and developmental biology. Dr. Silver is the editor-in-chief of Mammalian Genome and the author of Mouse Genetics: Concepts and Applications (1995 Oxford Univ. Press) and Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World (1997 Avon).
James D. Watson:
James Watson, who shared a Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1956 and became Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1976. From 1988-1992 , Dr. Watson functioned as Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the NIH where he established the Human Genome Project. Dr. Watson has won numerous honorary degrees and awards, and has been the President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1994.
Symposium Co-Organizers
John Campbell:
Dr. Campbell received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur, Paris and the CSIRO in Canberra Australia. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, first holder of the Robert Wesson Fellowship on Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy, and Professor of Neurobiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Campbell’s fields of research are genetics and evolutionary theory.
Gregory Stock:
Gregory Stock received a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from Harvard. In his 1993 book, Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, he examined the evolutionary significance of humanity’s rapid technological progress, and at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School looked at the implications of recent breakthroughs in molecular genetics. Dr. Stock is now the Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life.