Associate Director at the Center of Life Science Studies at the University of California-Berkeley and Chief Executive Officer of Signum Biosciences, a biotech company in Princeton, New Jersey; author of several books, including Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism and author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future; former director of the UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society
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