12 Facts About Stuart Newman

Stuart Newman writes about social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology.

Stuart Newman graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York.

Stuart Newman was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Chicago and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, UK, and before joining New York Medical College was an instructor in anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and an assistant professor of biological sciences at the State University of New York at Albany.

Stuart Newman has been a visiting professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the University of Tokyo, Komaba, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University, Australia.

Stuart Newman is a member of the External Faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria and in 2015 was appointed editor-in-chief of the institute's journal Biological Theory.

Stuart Newman is a director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Nixon, NV and was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, MA, and of the editorial board of the Journal of Biosciences.

Stuart Newman has characterized a biophysical effect in extracellular matrices populated with cells or nonliving particles, "matrix-driven translocation," that provides a physical model for morphogenesis of mesenchymal tissues.

Stuart Newman is co-author, with the physicist Gabor Forgacs, of the textbook Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo.

Stuart Newman has proposed a theory for the evolution of cell differentiation in animals.

Stuart Newman has advanced a novel scenario for the origin of birds, the Thermogenic Muscle Hypothesis.

Stuart Newman has long warned of dangers associated with lax regulations of genetic engineering of microorganisms and the potential of laboratory manipulation to create new bacterial and viral pathogens.

Stuart Newman has been an outspoken critic of proposed uses of developmental biology to modify human species identity, including cloning and germline genetic manipulation.