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About the authors
Michael Antoniou
Michael Antonoiu is reader in molecular genetics andhead o the Gene Expression and Terapy Group,Department o Medical and Molecular Genetics,King’s College London School o Medicine, UK.
Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostafa Habib
Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostaa Habib is proessorand ormer director, Institute o Biology,UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil, and provost orextension and community aairs, UNICAMP.He is an internationally recognized expert onapplied ecology, entomology, agricultural pests,environmental education, sustainability, biologicalcontrol, and agroecology.
C. Vyvyan Howard
C. Vyvyan Howard is proessor o bioimaging andleader o the Nano Systems Research Group atthe University o Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is amedically qualied toxicopathologist. He has heldthe Presidencies o the Royal Microscopical Societyand the International Society or Stereology andwas editor o the Journal o Microscopy rom1985-91. In recent years his research has centredon the toxicological properties o nanoparticles.
Richard C. Jennings
Richard Jennings is aliated research scholarin the Department o History and Philosophy o Science at the University o Cambridge, UK. Hisspeciality is the responsible conduct o researchand the ethical uses o science and technology.He is a member o BCS, the Chartered Instituteor I, or which he co-developed a ramework orassessing ethical issues in new technologies.
Carlo Leifert
Carlo Leiert is proessor o ecological agricultureat the School o Agriculture, Food and RuralDevelopment (AFRD), Newcastle University, UK;and director o the Stockbridge echnology CentreLtd (SC), UK, a non-prot company providingR&D support or the UK horticultural industry.
Rubens Onofre Nodari
Rubens Onore Nodari is proessor, FederalUniversity o Santa Catarina, Brazil; ormermanager o plant genetic resources, ministryo environment, Brazil; and a Fellow o theNational Council o Scientic and echnologicalDevelopment (CNPq) o the ministry o scienceand technology, Brazil.
Claire Robinson
Claire Robinson is a researcher, writer and editorwith Earth Open Source. She works or NGOsthat advocate or public health and environmentalsustainability.
John Fagan
John Fagan ounded one o the rst geneticallymodied organism testing and certicationcompanies. He co-ounded Earth Open Source,which uses open source collaboration to advancesustainable ood production. Earlier, he conductedcancer research at the US National Instituteso Health. He holds a PhD in biochemistry andmolecular and cell biology rom Cornell University.
Endorsers
Bruce Blumberg
Bruce Blumberg is proessor o developmentaland cell biology and proessor o pharmaceuticalsciences at the University o Caliornia, Irvine,USA. His speciality is the study o gene regulationand intercellular signalling during embryonicdevelopment.
Martin T. Donohoe
Martin Donohoe is adjunct associate proessor,School o Community Health, Portland StateUniversity and senior physician, internal medicine,Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Clackamas, Oregon,USA. He is chie science advisor or the Campaignor Sae Food and a member o the board o advisors,Oregon Physicians or Social Responsibility.