Alliance for Humane Biotechnology is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to raising public awareness about the social implications of genetic engineering and other biotechnological and reproductive technologies.
“If critics want to do more than intellectual hand-wringing, they must take a clear position on where to draw the line when supporting scientific intervention in the manufacture and manipulation of human life.”
Our Mission
We are scholars, students, and activists working for a biotechnology that places the health and welfare of people and the natural environment above financial interests.
We analyze, speak, and publish on the social and environmental impacts of biotechnological developments. Areas of interest include synthetic biology, genetic, reproductive, and "designer baby" technologies, human egg harvesting, cloning research, human-animal hybrid research, biotech patenting, and genetic privacy.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS *
Diane Beeson, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita Department of Sociology and Social Services
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA
contact: dbeeson@humanebiotech.org
Patricia Jennings, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Social Services
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA.
Contact: pat.jennings@csueastbay.edu
Abby Lippman, Ph.D. (In Memoriam)
Department of Family Medicine
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Becky McClain, M. S.
Molecular Biologist, Injured Biotech Worker
Connecticut, USA
contact: BMcClain@humanebiotech.org
Catherine Powell
Director, Labor Archives and Research Center
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
M. L. Tina Stevens, Ph.D.
Lecturer Emerita Department of History
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
Author, Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics; with Stuart Newman: Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience
contact: tstevens@humanebiotech.org
* Institutions listed for identification purposes only
Projects Consultant: James E. Stevens, JD
Events Coordinator: Joan C. Ryan, MA
ADVISORY BOARD *
Justine Durrell, J.D.
Law Offices of Justine Durrell, Sausalito, CA
Co-founder, RockRose Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
Elaine Draper, J.D., Ph.D.
Director, Law and Society Program
Department of Sociology
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rosann Greenspan, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for the Study of Law and Society
U. C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Jeremy Gruber, J.D.
Senior Vice President, Open Primaries; Former President, Council for Responsible Genetics
New York, NY USA
Emilia Ianeva, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of International Law
Bulgaria/USA
contact: ianeva@humanebiotech.org
David King, Ph.D.
Director, Human Genetics Alert
United Kingdom
Cathy Kudlick, Ph.D,Director, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine,
Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progresives
Berkeley, CA, USA
Paul K. Longmore, Ph.D.
Institute on Disability, Director
Professor, Department of History
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA, USA
Margaret F. Lynch, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA, USA
Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
New York Medical College, NY, USA
Marsha Saxton, Ph.D.
U.C. Berkeley, USA
World Institute on Disability
Stephen Shmanske, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA, USA
Sheila R. Tully, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA, USA
Casey Walker
Editor and Publisher, Wild Duck Review
Peter J. Whitehouse M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University
Attending Physician, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Director, Adult Learning, The Intergenerational School
* Institutions listed for identification purposes only