Lee M. Silver

Lee M. Silver is professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is author of the critically acclaimed Remaking Eden and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek International. Silver has been elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he received a prestigious MERIT Award for outstanding research in genetics from the National Institutes of Health. Silver holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University and lives with his family in New Jersey and New York.