Introducing Robin Pierce

Pierce_peopleRobin Pierce, JD, PhD, contributes to the HealthLawProf Blog, and is joining Bill of Health as a regular contributor.

Robin is Senior Law Associate with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She was formerly on the faculty of Technische Universiteit Delft in The Netherlands where her work focused on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in biotechnology, including policy issues in the integration of nanotechnology in health care, regulatory, policy, and ethical issues in governance of synthetic biology, and policy, legal, and ethical issues arising from advances in Alzheimer’s disease research, and neuroscience, in general. In 2014 Dr. Pierce was appointed Associate Editor for Science and Genetics with the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. In 2010 she was appointed Programme Leader for the Kluyver Center program on Society and Genomics in The Netherlands. She has taught across disciplines including such courses as Remedies (law), Social Issues in Biology, Ethic, Legal, and Social Issues in the Life Sciences, Public Health Ethics, and the Development of Legal and Political Institutions.

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