Laurie Zoloth

Laurie Zoloth is Professor of Ethics and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, and is the President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She is also co-founder of The Ethics Practice, a group that has provided bioethics consultation and education services to health care providers and health care systems nationally.  She is a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute National Bioethics Advisory Board. She also serves on the NASA National Advisory Board to IACUC, NASA’s Interagency National Animal Care and Use Committees and the national advisory board of the American Association of the Advancement of Science’s Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion.

Zoloth’s current research projects include work on the emerging issues in medical and research genetics. In 2000 she was awarded a NIH ELSI (Ethical Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome) Grant to explore the ethical issues after the mapping of the human genome.