Andrea Bonnicksen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University where she teaches courses in biomedical and biotechnology policy. She has written extensively on ethics and policy in genetics and health policy, and is the author of In Vitro Fertilization: From Laboratories to Legislatures (Columbia University Press, 1989), "Transplanting Nuclei Between Human Eggs: Implications for Germ-Line Genetics," in Politics and the Life Sciences (March, 1998), and coeditor of Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, a three-volume series (Columbia University Press). She was Vice-Chair of the Executive Council, Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and is on the editorial advisory board for an NIH project on the "Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project."