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Doug Gurian-Sherman
Senior Scientist, Food & Environment ProgramExpertise
Food & Agriculture-Genetic EngineeringProfile
Doug Gurian-Sherman is a senior scientist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). From 2004 to 2006, he was senior scientist at the Center for Food Safety in Washington, DC. Previously, Dr. Gurian-Sherman was founding co-director and science director for the biotechnology project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. He also worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he was responsible for assessing human health and environmental risks from transgenic plants and microorganisms and developing biotechnology policy. Before joining the EPA, he worked in the Biotechnology Group at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Dr. Gurian-Sherman is the author of Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (2009) and CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (2008).
Dr. Gurian-Sherman obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and master’s and doctorate degrees in plant pathology from the University of California at Berkeley before doing post-doctoral research on rice and wheat molecular biology with the U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Albany, CA. He is the author of numerous papers and reports on agricultural biotechnology and has frequently advised and testified before government agencies regulating genetically engineered crops.
Dr. Gurian-Sherman is widely cited by the national media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio’s Science Friday. He served on the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory food biotechnology subcommittee from its inception in 2002 to 2005.
