AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Theodore Friedmann, MD & AB University of Pennsylvania (1956 &1960), MA University of Oxford (1995). Professor of Pediatrics and Whitehill Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Director of the UCSD Program in Human Gene Therapy. Friedmann received his clinical training in Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston and did postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge, the National Institutes of Health, and the Salk Institute. Along with Richard Roblin, he published what is considered by many to be the first description of the need for gene therapy for human disease. Publications include The Development of Human Gene Therapy and "Principles for Human Gene Therapy Studies" (Science 287: 2163-2165, 2000), a summary of recent public policy difficulties and developments.