David E. Winickoff, J.D., M.A.
Associate Professor of Bioethics & Society
Associate Director, Berkeley Science, Technology & Society Center
College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley
Dep’t of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Tel: 510-643-0319
115 Giannini Hall Fax: 510-643-2504
Berkeley, CA 94720-3312
Education
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Cambridge, MA Post-doctoral Fellow, Science & Technology Studies 2002-04
Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
J.D. June, 2002
Founder, Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society (E.LaB)
Cambridge University Cambridge, United Kingdom
B.A., M.A., English (Mellon Fellow) June, 1998
First-class honors, Newnes Prize
Yale University New Haven, CT
B.A., History May, 1996
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships, Honors and Visiting Professorships
2011 Visiting Professor, Faculties of Law, University of Trento and Piacenza Cattolica University, Italy (May 2011)
2010 Young Faculty Award, College of Natural Resources, U.C. Berkeley
2008 Visiting Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (Summer)
2007-2011 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics
2007 Visiting Scholar, University of Geneva Faculty of Law (Summer)
2006-2007 Presidential Chair Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
2006 Visiting Professorial Fellow, Genomics Policy and Research Forum, U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
2003 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
1998 Newnes Prize, Clare College, Cambridge
1996-1998 Paul Mellon Fellowship, two years at Cambridge University (U.K.)
Affiliations and Major Activities
2010- Royal Society U.K. Geoengineering Research Governance Initiative, Working Group Member
2010- California Council on Science and Technology, Project Team on the Safety of Smart Meters
2010- National Commission on Energy Policy, Task Force on Climate Remediation
2009- Kaiser Permanente Bioethics Advisory Panel, Program on Genes, Environment and Health
2008- National Academies of Science, Consultant, Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, Panel on University Intellectual Property
2008- Moffitt Cancer Center, Ethics Advisory Board
2008- Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr., Biobank External Ethics Advisory Board
2008- Science and Democracy Network, Governing Council
2006- U.C. Berkeley Science, Technology and Society Center, Associate Director
2006- Center for Genetics and Society, Advisory Board, Oakland CA
2004- Center for the Study of Law and Society, Faculty Affiliate, Berkeley Law School
2004- Energy and Resources Group (ERG), U.C. Berkeley, Faculty Affiliate
2002- Massachusetts Bar Association, Licensed Attorney
Publications
[33] D.E. Winickoff (senior author) (with D. Matthews, G. Graff, K. Saha), Access to Stem Cells and Data: Persons, Property Rights, and Scientific Progress, Science 331 (6018): 725-727 (11 February 2011)
[32] Kendra Klein, D.E. Winickoff, Organic Regulation Across the Atlantic: Emergence, Divergence, Convergence, Environmental Politics 20;2: 153-172 (March 2011)
[31] J. Long and D.E. Winickoff, Governing Geoengineering: Principles and Process, Solutions 1;5: 60-62 (5 Oct 2010)
[30] S. O'Connor, G.D. Graff, and D.E. Winickoff, “Legal Context of University Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer,” peer-reviewed commissioned paper for the National Academies of Science report, Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (Fall 2010)
[29] D.E. Winickoff, “Judicial Imaginaries of Technology: Constitutional Law and the DNA Round Up,” in Sheila Jasanoff, ed., Reframing Rights: Constitutional Implications of Technological Change (forthcoming 2011)
[28] D.E. Winickoff and Douglas Bushey, Science and Power in Global Food Regulation: The Rise of the Codex Alimentarius, 35 Science, Technology and Human Values 356-381 (2010).
[27] D.E. Winickoff, “From Benefit Sharing to Power Sharing: Partnership Governance in Population Genomics Research,” pp. 53-66 in J. Kaye and M. Stranger, eds., Principles and Practice in Biobank Governance (Ashgate, 2009).
[26] Timothy Caulfield et al. (and 22 others with D.E. Winickoff), International Stem Cell Environments: a World of Difference, Nature Reports Stem Cells, doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.61 (2009)
[25] Timothy Caulfield et al. (and 23 others with D.E. Winickoff), The Stem Cell Research Environment: A Patchwork of Patchworks, 5 Stem Cell Reviews and Reports 82-88 (2009)
[24] D.E. Winickoff, Gregory Graff and Kris Saha, Opening Life Stem Cell Research and Development: Integrative Management of Data, IP and Ethics in Stem Cells, 9 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics 52-127 (2009)
[23] D.E. Winickoff and Kendra Klein, “Food Labels and the Environment: Development and Harmonization of Organic Regulation in the EU and US,” forthcoming in David Vogel & Johan Swinnen, eds., Cooperating in Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a Global World, EU, US and California, previous version available as IGS Center on Institutions and Governance Working Paper (November 2008) http://igov.berkeley.edu/papers0809.html#winickoff
[22] D.E. Winickoff and O.K. Obasogie, Race-Specific Drugs: Regulatory Trends and Public Policy, 29 Trends in Pharmacological Science 277-279 (June 2008).
[21] D.E. Winickoff, Partnership in U.K. Biobank: A Third Way for Genomic Property?, Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 35;3: 440-456 (Fall 2007).
[20] D.E. Winickoff (with Krishanu Saha and Gregory Graff), “Enabling Stem Cell Research and Development” (April 27, 2007). Center for the Study of Law and Society, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty Working Papers. Paper 48.
[19] D.E. Winickoff, Bioethics and Stem Cell Banking in California, 21 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1067-1105 (2006)
[18] D.E. Winickoff, Governing Stem Cell Research in California and the USA: Towards a Social Infrastructure, Trends in Biotechnology 24;9: 390-394 (September 2006)
[17] D.E. Winickoff (with O.K. Obasogie), When is the Racial Pharmacy Bad Medicine?, Bioethics Forum (Hastings Center On-Line) (July 19, 2006)
[16] D.E. Winickoff, Genome and Nation: Iceland’s Health Sector Database and its Legacy, Innovations 1;2: 80-105 (Spring 2006)
[15] D.E. Winickoff, I.S. Kohane, R.B. Altman, Health-Information Altruists, New England Journal of Medicine (Letter) 354;5: 530-31 (2 February 2006)
[14] D.E. Winickoff, L. Neumann, Towards a Social Contract for Genomics: Property and the Public in The ‘Biotrust’ Model, 1:3 Genomics, Society and Policy 8-21 (December 2005)
[13] D.E. Winickoff, The California Public Biorepository and Trust (CPBT): A Governance Model for Ethics and IP of Stem Cell Research, White Paper and written testimony to public hearing of the Ethics and Standards Working Group of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, CA (27 September 2005)
[12] D. Winickoff, et al., Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law, 30 Yale Journal of International Law 81-123 (Winter 2005)
[11] D. Winickoff, Prop. 71 a Risky Experiment in Squandering Public Monies, San Francisco Chronicle, E3 (17 October 2004)
[10] D. Winickoff, The Constitutionality of Forensic DNA Databanks: Fourth Amendment Issues, American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME) Report, available at http://www.aslme.org/dna_04/reports/index.php> (Spring 2004)
[9] D. Winickoff (with L. Busch, R. Grove-White, S. Jasanoff, B. Wynne), amicus curiae brief submitted to the Dispute Settlement Panel of World Trade Organization, in the case of EC: Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products (28 April 2004) Available at <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/ieppp/wtoamicus/>.
[8] J. Otten, H.R. Wyle, G.D. Phelps, D.E. Winickoff, R.N Winickoff, The Charitable Trust as a Model for Genomic Biobanks, New England Journal of Medicine (Letter) 350;1: 85-86 (1 January 2004)
[7] D.E. Winickoff, R. Winickoff, The Charitable Trust as a Model for Genomic Biobanks, New England Journal of Medicine 349;12: 1180-1184 (18 September 2003)
[6] D. Winickoff, Governing Population Genomics: Law, Bioethics, and Biopolitics in Three Case Studies, 43 Jurimetrics 187-228 (2003)
[5] D. Winickoff (with Sheila Jasanoff), Hard facts and soft law: what’s the evidence?, OpenDemocracy.Net (18 November 2002)
[4] D. Winickoff, Biosamples, Genomics, and Human Rights: Context and Content of Iceland’s Biobanks Act, Journal of BioLaw and Business 4:2 (January 2001). Reprinted in Politeia 62:157 (2001)
[3] D. Winickoff, E. Arnason, J.R. Gulcher, K. Stefansson, The Icelandic Healthcare Database, New England Journal of Medicine (Letter) 343;23: 1734-1735 (7 December 2000)
[2] D. Winickoff, Rhetoric Equals Cold Cash in Iceland, GeneWatch (November 2000)
[1] D. Berwick, D. Winickoff, The Truth About Doctors’ Handwriting: a Prospective Study, British Medical Journal 313:1657-1658 (21 December 1996)
Grants
2008-2009 Berkeley Institute of the Environment (BIE) Round-table Grant, for “Policy Architectures for Green Innovation and Justice,” U.C. Berkeley. P.I. $20,000.
2008 UC Discovery Conference Grant, for “Institutional Landscape in Stem Cell Research and Development: Problems and Solutions,” San Francisco. P.I. $10,000.
2008 UC Berkeley Stem Cell Center Grant, for conference “Institutional Landscape in Stem Cell Research and Development: Problems and Solutions.” P.I. $15,000.
2007-2008 NSF Sub-Award from Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Arizona State University, money to run an arm of the National Citizens’ Technology Forum. Graduate student support. P.I. $42,884
2007-2010 Greenwall Bioethics Faculty Scholarship, “Bioethics and Property Relations in University Life Sciences Research.” P.I., $180,000 research and salary support over three years
2007-2008 UC Berkeley Futures Grant, “Emerging Technologies and the Environment.” Co-P.I., $50,000 in program support
2006-2009 NSF, Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS). Affiliated personnel, $85,000 for subcontract and graduate student support
2005-2009 California Agricultural Experiment Station, “Science, World Trade, and The New Constitution of Health and Environment.” P.I., $90,000 over 5 years
2005-2009 UC Berkeley Committee on Research Grants. Various Projects. P.I. $18,000.
Recent Invited Academic Talks, Papers, and Presentations
Property and Intellectual Property Issues in the Use of Biorepository Assets, invited workshop presentation for the Institute of Medicine’s Review of the Appropriate use of Armed Forces Tissue Repository (AFIP), Institute of Medicine, Washington D.C. (11 July 2011)
The Standardization of Organic Agriculture: Divergence and Convergence across the E.U. and the U.S., invited research seminar, University of Trento Faculty of Law, Trento, Italy (10 May 2011)
The Charitable Trust Model in Genomic Biobanking: Still Relevant?, invited research seminar, University of Trento Faculty of Law, Trento, Italy (11 May 2011)
Geoengineering: Expertise, Law and Politics, invited research seminar, University of Trento Faculty of Law, Trento, Italy (16 May 2011)
GMOs and the Role of Science in WTO Law, invited research seminar, “Agrifood Systems Seminar,” Cattolica University Faculty of Law, Piacenza, Italy (20 May 2011)
Science and Power in Global Food Regulation: The Rise of the Codex Alimentarius, Cattolica University Faculty of Law, Piacenza, Italy (23 May 2011)
Bayh-Dole, Research Tools and the Scientific Enterprise, invited research talk, conference entitled, “Bayh-Dole at 30: Mapping the Future of University Patenting,” University of California, Davis (30 April 2011)
STS 20 + 20, panelist and discussant, Harvard University, Cambridge MA (8-9 April 2011)
Bioethics, University Technology Transfer, and Global Justice, invited lecture, Berman Institute of Bioethics Seminar Series, Johns Hopkins University (28 March 2011)
The Japanese Legal System: An Era of Transition, Discussant, Berkeley Law School (14 March 2011)
Private Assets, Public Mission: The Moral Landscape of University Technology Transfer, invited research talk, University of Edinburgh (4 November 2010)
The Politics of University Technology Transfer, invited research talk, Science and Democracy Network, Kavli Center, United Kingdom (29 June 2010)
Private Assets, Public Mission: The Moral Landscape of University Technology Transfer, invited research talk, U.C. Hastings Lecture Series on Bioethics, U.C. Hastings College of the Law (19 April 2010)
Experimental Governance? Lessons for Geoengineering, invited opening plenary speaker for Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, Asilomar Conference Center, Asilomar CA
(22 March 2010)
Partnership Governance: Where Good Science and Good Ethics Come Together, invited speaker at UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council workshop: “Involving publics in biobank research and governance,” Wellcome Trust, London UK (8 December 2009)
Private Assets, Public Mission: The Moral Landscape of University Technology Transfer, invited research colloquium, Center for Society and Genetics, University of California—Los Angeles (15 October 2009)
Biobanks: Ethics, Law and Governance, speaker and instructor at National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control, Summer Institute on Public Health Genomics (26 June 2009)
Opening Stem Cell Research and Development: A New Agenda for Funders, invited research talk at International Planning Workshop of the Canadian Stem Cell Network, “The Stem Cell Research Environment: Drawing the Evidence and Experience Together,” Montreal, Canada (16 January 2009)
From Benefit Sharing to Power Sharing: Partnership Governance in Population Genomics Research, invited research lecture in research seminar series, The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Canada (8 January 2009)
Food Labels and the Environment: Organic Regulation and Its Problems, Original Research Paper presented at Berkeley California-EU Regulatory Cooperation Workshop, “California-EU Biodiversity and Biosafety Regulatory Cooperation,” Haas Business School, U.C. Berkeley (11 December 2008)
Science and Values in International Food Regulation, conference panel talk, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, Cleveland OH (24 October 2008)
The History and Current Controversies of the Bayh-Dole Act, invited conference panel talk, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Annual Conference, Berkeley CA (19 October 2008)
Justice and the Management of Genomic Biobanks: A Procedural Rejoinder to Benefit-Sharing, invited research lecture, The Innovation Law & Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario Canada (26 September 2008)
Governing Stem Cell Research: Towards the Integrated Management of Datasharing, IP and Ethics, invited poster presentation (with Greg Graff), Governing Emerging Technologies, NSF Gordon Research Conference on Science Policy, Big Sky, Montana (19 August 2008)
Recent Academic Guest Teaching
Ethics and Politics of Geoengineering, ESPM 192 Molecular Approaches to Environmental Problem Solving (G. Roderick instructor) (19 April 2011)
Ethics and Intellectual Property in Stem Cell Research, Integrative Biology IB 98/198 called Stem Cells: Science and Society (11 April 2011)
Ethics and Intellectual Property in Stem Cell Research, Greenwall Fellows Seminar, Berman Institute of Ethics, Johns Hopkins University (28 March 2011)
The Ethics of Human Genome Diversity, Integrative Biology 35AC “Human Biological Variation,” UC Berkeley (L. Hlusko) (December 2010)
The Ethics and Politics of International Clinical Trials, DeCal Course, “Ethics of Volunteering in Health Care” (December 2010)
The Ethics and Politics of University Technology Transfer, Environmental Economics 143
“Economics of Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation” UC Berkeley (B. Wright) (5 November 2009)
Opening Collaboration in Stem Cell Research: Law, Economics, and Public Policy, invited guest lecture, “Stem Cells: Science and Society,” UC Berkeley, Bioengineering 98/198 (27 October 2008)