Gregory Stock

CEO, Signum Biosciences

Gregory Stock is the CEO of Signum Biosciences, which was formed to bring the scientific breakthroughs being made at his laboratory at Princeton University to drug-discovery in helping to address the growing healthcare crisis stemming from the burgeoning pharmaceutical needs of graying populations. He is the Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA's School of Medicine. 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. The symposium he convened two years ago on the possibilities of manipulating the genetics of human embryos drew international attention as the first major public discussion of this issue among distinguished scientists and opened a global debate on this hitherto taboo topic.

Dr. Stock wrote the influential 1993 book Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. He edited together with John Campbell, Engineering The Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We pass to Our Children. He has contributed several articles to Reason Magazine. His work Redesigning Humans: How Technology Will Redefine the Human Form and Character was published in April, 2002. An advocate of the aggressive integration of information and biotechnologies in society, he has held public debates with leading scientific and political figures including Francis Fukuyama, Bill McKibben, and William Hurlbut. Dr. Stock also presented a talk at a free symposium on the subject of regenerative medicine entitled "Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications" on June 27, 2008 at UCLA. The event was hosted by the Methuselah Foundation.

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Edmonton Aging Symposium, Life Extension debate
Charlie Rose, Gregory Stock and Francis Fukuyama, Our Genetic Future
World Future Society, Personlized Medicine