Team

Our Leadership Team comprises persons with expertise and experience in biomedicine, mathematics, public health, public policy, law, social science, and public advocacy, all of whom agree that research that creates potential pandemic pathogens more dangerous than those in nature poses existential risks to the public and provides few, if any, benefits for science, medicine, public health, or national security. 

Biosafety Now believes the public is a crucial stakeholder in research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP research), and therefore must have a seat at the table in assessing whether the benefits of research projects outweigh risks, and in determining whether, and, if so, under what conditions and with what precautions, ePPP research projects may proceed.

Biosafety Now is not political, but we do work with elected officials from across the political spectrum to advocate for policies to prevent lab-generated pandemics.

Steve Phillips

Steven Phillips

United States

M.D.; Yale-trained Physician; Researcher; Author; Biotech Founder; In-demand Public Speaker

Kathryn Nixdorff

Kathryn Nixdorff

Germany

Ph.D.; Professor Emerita in Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology

Helen Mudler

Helen E. Mundler

France

Ph.D.; Associate Professor in English Studies, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Harish Seshadri

Harish Seshadri

India

Ph.D.; Professor of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Laura Kahn

Laura H. Kahn

United States

M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P.; Physician; Author; Educator; Consultant

Justin Kinney

Justin B. Kinney

United States

Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Bryce Nickels

Bryce E. Nickels

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Genetics, Rutgers University; Lab Director, Waksman Institute

Muneera Rasheed

Muneera A. Rasheed

Pakistan

Clinical Psychologist; Advocate for Justice and Equity in Global Health

Dana Parish

Dana Parish

United States

Author; Health Reporter; Songwriter; Advisory Board Member, Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Malcolm Dando

Malcolm R. Dando

United Kingdom

Ph.D.; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford

Andre Goffinet

Andre Goffinet

Belgium

M.D., Ph.D.; Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Univ. of Louvain Medical School

Raina MacIntyre

Raina MacIntyre

Australia

M. App. Epid., Ph.D.; Professor of Global Biosecurity, Kirby Institute, Univ. of New South Wales

Edward Hammond

Edward Hammond

United States

M.A., M.S.; Founder and Director, Sunshine Project; Director, Prickly Research

Tyler Stepke

Tyler Stepke

United States

Graduate Student in Applied Physics, Johns Hopkins University

Peter Hale

Peter Hale

United States

Executive Director, Foundation for Vaccine Research, Washington, D.C.

Lynn Klotz

Lynn C. Klotz

United States

Ph.D.; Senior Science Fellow; Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Richard Ebright

Richard H. Ebright

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University; Lab Director, Waksman Institute

Nariyoshi Shinomiya

Nariyoshi Shinomiya

Japan

M.D., Ph.D.; President, National Defense Medical College of Japan

Colin Butler

Colin D. Butler

Australia

Ph.D.; Hon Prof of Public Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian Natl Univ

Rick Sheridan

Rick Sheridan

United States

BS,Aerospace Engineering; MBA; head of EMSKE Phytochem

Yanna Lambrinidou

Yanna Lambrinidou

United States

Ph.D.; Affiliate faculty, Department of Science, Technology, and Society; Virginia Tech University

Milton Leitenberg

Milton Leitenberg

United States

Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland

Sabrina Packman

Sabrina Packman

United States

STEM Education Advocate; Robotics Engineer; Award-winning Baker

Elisa Harris

Elisa D. Harris

United States

Non-Resident Senior Researcher; Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland

Amir Attaran

Amir Attaran

Canada

Ph.D., LL.B.; Professor in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Eric Starbuck

Eric S. Starbuck

United States

DrPH, M.P.H.; Senior Advisor for Child Health and Pandemic Preparedness, Save the Children

David Fisman

David N. Fisman

Canada

Ph.D., M.P.H.; Professor of Epidemiology, University of Toronto

Susan Wright

Susan Wright

United States

Ph.D.; Research Scientist and Lecturer Emerita in History of Science, University of Michigan

Marie Chevrier

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University-Camden

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