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RCSI Annual Outreach Lecture 2008

Title: ‘Mopping up the mess: Bringing US science policy back from the brink of insanity’

  By Dr Michael Stebbins

In 2008 RCSI were delighted to have the pleasure of Dr Michael Stebbins present our Annual Outreach Lecture on the 13th of November during science week. Dr Stebbins is the Director of the Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists. Prior to joining FAS, Dr. Stebbins was a congressional fellow in the US Senate. Before coming to Washington , Dr. Stebbins was a senior editor at Nature Genetics. He has written for Reuters and numerous scientific journals and is a science advisor for ScienCentral a television production company that produces stories for the ABC and NBC affiliates. He has a B.S. in Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook and received his Ph.D. in genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Sex, Drugs & DNA is his first book.

The title of his talk was “Mopping up the mess: Bringing US science policy back from the brink of insanity.”

 Michael was on RTE2's The Panel on Monday the 12th of November 2007.

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