Henry T. (Hank) Greely

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences (2004 - present)
• Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society (2009 - present)
• Chair, Steering Committee, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (1997 - present)
• Member, Bio-X Faculty Leadership Council (2005 - present)
• Member, Stanford Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (2006 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007)

Professional Education

Community and International Work

• California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research 
• Neuroethics Society 
• Research Project on Genetics, Environment, and Health 
• HGDP/CEPH World Cell Collection 
• Law and Neuroscience Project 

Current Research Interests

My current interests in neuroscience involve the consequences of advances in neurosciences for 1) predicting future diseases or traits; 2) reading minds to allow detection of subjective mental states such as pain, recognition, bias, or memory; 3) "treating" non-disease traits; 4) cognitive enhancement; 5) detecting consciousness and handling issues around disorders of consciousness; and 6) issues of responsibility.

My current interests in human genetics focus on 1) prenatal genetic diagnosis, 2) the effects of widespread adoption of clinical whole genome sequencing, and 3) ethical, legal, and social issues in genomic biobanks.

In stem cell research, I am currently interested in 1) legal challenges to stem cell research and 2) issues around human/non-human chimeras.

My interests in human research protections, biological enhancement, and the future of reproduction draw on, and involve, all three of the substantive fields described above.

Publications

• Direct brain interventions to "treat" disfavored human behaviors: ethical and social issues. Greely HT, Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2012; 91 (2): 163-5
• Reading minds with neuroscience--possibilities for the law. Greely HT, Cortex. 2011 Nov-Dec; 47 (10): 1254-5
• Get ready for the flood of fetal gene screening. Greely HT, Nature. 2011; 469 (7330): 289-91
• Human/Nonhuman Chimeras: Assessing the Issues Henry T. Greely, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANIMAL ETHICS (ed. Tom Beauchamp and R.G. Frey, Oxford Univ. Press). 2011
• Medical and graduate students' attitudes toward personal genomics. Ormond KE, Hudgins L, Ladd JM, Magnus DM, Greely HT, Cho MK. Genet Med. 2011; 13 (5): 400-8