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About Nita A. Farahany
- Nita A.
- Farahany is an Iranian-American professor and scholar on the ramifications of new technology on society, law, and ethics.
- She currently teaches Law and philosophy at Duke University where she is the founding director of Duke Science and Society as well as a chair of the Bioethics and Science Policy MA program.
- She is active on many committees, counsels, and other groups within the law and bioethics communities with a focus on technologies that have increasing potential to have ethical and legal issues.
- In 2010 she was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical issues.
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