Perspectives On Medical Research

Volume 5, 1995

Aping Science

A Critical Analysis of Research at the Yerkes
Regional Primate Research Center

Biographical Information

Committee on Animal Models in Biomedical Research

Irwin D. J. Bross, Ph.D.

Dr. Bross was the head of Research Design and Analysis at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute and Director of Biostatistics at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research. He has authored five books and more than 300 articles in leading medical journals. Now retired, he continues to write on how industrial interests and the federal government use invalid studies to defend practices that expose people to harmful radiation and chemicals.

K. Kodell Carter, Ph.D.

Dr. Carter is professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University, where he is one of the nation’s few philosophers of medical science. He has published extensively on the inadequacy of animal model testing of medical ideas, particularly in the field of infectious diseases. His critique of “Koch’s Postulates” has implications for contemporary AIDS research.

Murry J. Cohen, M.D.

Dr. Cohen was an Assistant Professor Clinical Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1977-1985, and he is currently in private practice. He has published in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse. He is a co-chair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee.

Roger Fouts, Ph.D.

A professor of psychology at Central Washington University, Dr. Fouts is Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute. He has published extensively in the area of non-human primate communication, including work with Project Washoe at the University of Nevada.

Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.

Dr. Kaufman is a Clinical Instructor at Case Western Reserve University. He has published several articles in the ophthalmic literature, and he was the principal investigator of a review of randomly chosen animal models of human disease. He is a co-chair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee and co-editor of Perspectives on Medical Research.

Hugh LaFollette, Ph.D.

Dr. LaFollette is Professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee State University. He specializes in ethics and political philosophy. He is author of Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell 1995) and editor or coeditor of five books, most recently World Hunger and Morality (Prentice-Hall, 1996).

Richard C. Lewontin, Ph.D.

A renowned population geneticist, Professor Lewontin holds the Louis Agassiz Chair of Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen scientific and popular books and hundreds of technical articles in the biomedical literature.

Gerald M. Lower, Jr., Ph.D.

A molecular biologist and philosopher, Dr. Lower is editor of One Voice: A Journal of Jeffersonian Democracy. He has published numerous research projects involving molecular pathology and molecular epidemiology and theoretical articles on mutation theory, causation, ecology of disease, and conceptual evolution in American Journal of Epidemiology, Cancer Research, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and other journals.

Brandon P. Reines, D.V.M.

A veterinarian and philosopher of medical science, Dr. Reines in founder and president of the Center for Health Science Policy. He is author of Cancer Research on Animals: Impact and Alternatives and has been published in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and other journals.

Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.

Professor Robinson is a Professor of Psychology and former Chairman of the Psychology Department at Georgetown University. He has served as President of two divisions of the American Psychological Association--the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the Division of History of Psychology--and he is a fellow of the Division of Experimental Psychology. He has written numerous articles and texts on human perception and brain function.

Niall Shanks, Ph.D.

Dr. Shanks is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and an Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at East Tennessee State University. His field of specialty is philosophy of science with current focus on evolutionary biology and its implications for the use of non-human animals as models of human biomedical phenomena.