Robert Mullan Cook-deegan MD

Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan is a professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and with the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University. He founded and directed Duke’s Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy (2002-2012), and Duke-in-Washington through June 2016. Prior to Duke, he was with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (1991-2002); the National Center for Human Genome Research (1989-1990); and the congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1982-1988). His research interests include science policy, health policy, biomedical research, cancer, and intellectual property. He is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome and more than 300 other publications.