Jul 08 2009
Gregory Stock
One of the World’s Leading Authorities on Genomics and Biotech
Dr Stock was the founding director of UCLA’s influential Program on Medicine, Technology and Society. He is a leading advocate for aggressive life science research and its global strategic importance. He presently is exploring key drivers of pharma development. Stock sits on California’s Stem Cell Advisory Board and is the founder of Signum, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
“Dr. Gregory Stock offers a convincing rebuttal to those who fear we are hurtling towards some deadly reckoning”
In detail
Dr Stock holds a doctorate in Biophysics from John Hopkins and an MBA from Harvard. He was a fellow at Princeton’s prestigious Woodrow Wilson School and is the founding CEO of Signum Biosciences. He serves on the board of Napo Pharmaceuticals and is the Associate Director of Berkeley’s Center for Life Science Policy. Dr. Stock has examined the implications of the Biotech revolution through his many papers, lectures, debates, books and media appearances. He has also organized seminal conferences that have shaped today’s debate about human enhancement, genetic design and increased longevity.
What he offers you
Gregory Stock inspires and challenges audiences with a compelling vision of the far reaching consequences of the genomics and biotech revolutions. He provides perspective on the economic, political, social and ethical challenges these new technologies will bring. He makes the case for hope and possibility.
How he presents
His presentations are provocative, engaging, accessible distillations of recent technological advances and how they will remake our lives and challenge our sense of what it is to be human. He provides a riveting, eye-opening glimpse of the sometimes dizzying future that awaits us. He is unforgettable.
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Topics
From Darwin to Destiny: The Future of Human Evolution
From Human Brain to Global Consciousness: The Melding of Human and Machine
From Pharmacogenetics to Genetic Design: The Human Genome Project and Humanity’s Future
Publications
Forthcoming
In The Future: The Book of Questions
On the Cusp: New Paths in Healthcare and Medicine
2003
Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
1999
Engineering the Human Germline
1993
Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism
1991
Business, Politics and Ethics: The Book of Questions
1988
The Book of Questions
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