Henry T. Greely
- Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law
- Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences
- Professor, by courtesy, Genetics
- Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics
- Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Room N361, Neukom Building
Expertise
- Bioethics
- Bioscience & the Law
- Biotechnology
- FDA Law
- Health Law & Policy
- Technology & the Law
Biography
Professor by courtesy of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society; and Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Henry T. (Hank) Greely (BA ’74) specializes in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, particularly those related to genetics, assisted reproduction, neuroscience, or stem cell research. He is a founder and immediate past president of the International Neuroethics Society; chair of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Earth BioGenome Project; and chair of California’s Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. He served from 2016 through 2022 as a member of the Multi-Council Working Group of the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative, whose Neuroethics Working Group he co-chaired; a member of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academies from 2013-2019; Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine from 2012-2019; as a member of the Advisory Council of the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences from 2013-2016; and from 2007-2010 as co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Professor Greely chairs the steering committee for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and directs the law school’s Center for Law and the Biosciences. Greely is also a professor (by courtesy) of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine. In 2007 Professor Greely was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received Stanford University’s Richard W. Lyman Award in 2013, and the Stanford Prize in Population Genetics and Society in 2017. He published The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction in 2016. His second book, CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, was published in 2021.
Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1985, Greely was a partner at Tuttle & Taylor, served as a staff assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and as special assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education
- BA Stanford University 1974
- JD Yale Law School 1977
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Affiliations & Honors
- Chair (1996-Present), Steering Committee, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE)
- Chair, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Earth BioGenome Project
- Chair, California’s Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee
- Chair (2002-2003), Stanford Faculty Senate
- Chair, Working Group on Stem Cell Research Policy Implementation
- Co-chair, Stanford Program in Organizing Neuroethics Education and Research
- Co-chair (2016-2022), Neuroethics Working Group of the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative
- Co-director (2007-2010), Law and Neuroscience Project
- Director, Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society, SCBE
- Ethics Chair, North American Committee, Human Genome Diversity Project
- Ethics Officer, World Cell Line Collection 1 (Collaboration between the Human Genome Diversity Project and the Centre de l'Etude de Polymorphism Humain
- Founder and former president, International Neuroethics Society
- Member, Center for Integrating Research in Genetics and Ethics, SCBE
- Member, Stanford Program on Neuroethics, SCBE
- Member, Working Group on Human Trials of Cell Based Interventions for Neurological Conditons, John Hopkins University
- Member (2002-Present), Faculty Leadership Council, Bio-X Program
- Member (2016-2022), Multi-Council Working Group of the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative
- Member (2013-2019), Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academies
- Member (2012-2019), Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine
- Member (2013-2016), Advisory Council of the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences
- Member, Scientific Advisory Committee and Ethics Advisory Committees, Deparment of Veterans' Affairs, DNA Bank Project
- Member, Genetics Advisory Board, Deparment of Veterans' Affairs, BEST Study
- Member, Ethics Committee, American Society for Gene Therapy
- Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Stem Cell Network (Canada)
- Member, Ethics Advisory Board, Affymetrix, Inc.
- Member, Executive Committee, France Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
- Member, Steering Committee, Neuroscience Institute at Stanford
- Member, Advisory Committee, Stanford Institute for Clinical Information
- Member, Advisory Committee, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Member, Executive Committee, Stanford Program in Regenerative Medicine
- Member, Operations Subcommittee
- Member, Bioethics Subcommittee
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Stanford University’s Richard W. Lyman Award, 2013
- Stanford Prize in Population Genetics and Society, 2017
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"This is a story where [scientists] start to create something, but then we do start thinking about the long tail and we decide, you know, we really shouldn't do this," Greely told Galloway. The RegLab study on racial covenants by Dan Ho, Faiz Surani, Mirac Suzgun, and coauthors was discussed…
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