ibhf co-founder

Lori Andrews, J.D.
Co-founder

Lori Andrews, J.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology. In Spring, 2002, she was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Andrews has been an advisor on biomedical law to Congress, foreign governments, and various federal agencies. She chaired the federal Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project. She served as a consultant to the science ministers of twelve countries on the issues of embryo stem cells, gene patents, and DNA banking. She has also advised artists who want to use genetic engineering to become creators with a capital "C" and invent new living species. She recently testified in the Senate on gene patenting and is advising the Chicago Historical Society on the ethics of testing Abraham Lincoln's DNA. Professor Andrews is also the author of ten books and more than one hundred scholarly articles, monographs, and book chapters on subjects including informed consent, medical genetics, and health policy. Her latest books include Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (West Publishing: St. Paul, MN 2002) (with Mark Rothstein and Maxwell Mehlman), Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown Publishers: New York 2001) (co-authored with Dorothy Nelkin), Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics (Columbia University Press: New York 2001), and The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology (Henry Holt, Inc.: New York 2000).