Stuart A. Newman

Day: Friday, April 22
Hour: 2:15 - 3:00 pm
Presentation: The health and societal hazards of human biotechnologies

Stuart A. Newman is a professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York He has contributed to several scientific fields, including biophysical chemistry, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory. Newman was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics (Cambridge, MA) and is currently a Fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future (Chicago, IL). He has testified before Congressional committees on issues ranging from patenting of organisms to human stem cells and cloning. Newman has been an INSERM Fellow at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University, Australia, a visiting scientist at the University of Paris-Sud, the French Atomic Energy Center-Saclay, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, and the University of Tokyo. He has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health on policy regarding the use of human fetal tissue for research. He is co-author (with Gabor Forgacs) if the forthcoming texbook Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005). He received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago. <<Back to Conference program