Dr. Gregory Stock’s Speeches:

1) The Human Genome: Our Next Frontier

2) The Genomics Revolution and its Impacts on Medicine, Business & Society

3) Personalized Healthcare & Medicine: Implications for Employers

4) Biotechnology, Bioterrorism & the Human Future

5) What Does It Mean to Be Human? A Look Into Our Biological Future

6) Genomics Meets the Internet: The Coming Medical & Healthcare Revolution

About Dr. Gregory Stock:

   Gregory Stock is uniquely qualified to answer the questions inherent in these times of great transition and discovery. From designer babies to the retardation of aging, he speaks and writes about the complex issues of science, ethics and human behavior in an understandable way, acknowledging our interest and deep concerns about the implications of these new discoveries now and in the future. His candor is refreshing, his passion for science inspiring, his insights enriching. Dr. Stock believes we are at a defining moment in human evolution. A thousand years from now our descendants will point to this time, with its critical breakthroughs in computers, genetics and space travel, as one of the key transitions in the long history of life.

   Dr. Gregory Stock is the Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA's School of Public Health. In this role he explores critical technologies poised to have large impacts on humanity's future and the shape of medical science. His goal has been to bring about a broad public debate on these technologies and their implications, leading to wise public policies surrounding their realization. Of particular interest to the program are the implications for society, medicine, and business of the human genome project and associated developments emerging from today's revolution in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. His 1998 look at the possibilities of manipulating the genetics of human embryos, the first major public discussion of this issue among distinguished scientists, opened a global debate on this then taboo topic.

   A prolific author and recognized authority on the impact of new technologies on human society, Professor. Stock's 2003 book, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future won the Kistler Book Prize for Science books and was nominated for a Wired Rave Award. Among his other books are Engineering The Human Germline, Metaman and the best seller, The Book of Questions, which has been translated into seventeen languages, and is now in its fifty-fifth printing. Sequels to that book include The Book of Questions: Business, Politics, and Ethics and a new book that will explore how coming technologies will reshape our everyday lives.

   Dr. Stock has been an invited speaker to numerous academic, government, and business conferences, sits on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics, and was asked to submit an Advisory Memo to President Clinton on the challenges of the next century. He makes regular appearances on television and radio, including CNN, PBS, NPR, Bloomberg, and the BBC. He has debated biotech policy with Jeremy Rifkin, Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama, Bill McKibben, George Annas and other prominent voices who would rein in biomedical research, and he hosted a television special on key figures in today's biotech revolution.

   Gregory Stock has a Doctorate in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Harvard University. He is the CEO of Signum Biosciences, a biotech company developing therapeutics for cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

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