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 Dr. Lee M. Silver is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His doctorate is in biophysics from Harvard University.
Between Harvard and Princeton, Silver trained at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, directed by Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, one of the discoverers of the DNA double-helix.
Silver has been elected to the governing boards of the Genetics Society of America and the International Mammalian Genome Society. He was also elected as a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission Task Force formed to recommend reproductive policy for the New Jersey State Legislature.
Silver is the author of Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life and Remaking Eden, which was published in sixteen languages. He is also the author of Mouse Genetics (a textbook for professionals), coeditor of Teratocarcinoma Stem Cells, and coauthor of the undergraduate text Genetics: From Genes to Genomes. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek International and has published over 180 scholarly articles. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including NBC Nightly News, PBS's News Hour, Nova, ABC's Nightline and World Report, The Charlie Rose Show, 20/20, 60 Minutes, and many others in the U.S. and elsewhere.
(Profile posted Nov. 2006.)
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