Tania Simoncelli

About

Tania Simoncelli recently joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as Director of Science Policy. Previously, she was Executive Director of Count Me In, an initiative housed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard that aims to accelerate biomedical research by facilitating patient-researcher partnerships. From 2010-2015, Simoncelli served in the Obama Administration, as Special Assistant to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and as Assistant Director for Forensic Science and Biomedical Innovation within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. From 2003-2010, Simoncelli worked for the ACLU as the organization’s first-ever Science Advisor. In 2013, Simoncelli was named by the journal Nature as one of “ten people who mattered this year” for spearheading the ACLU’s successful lawsuit challenging the patenting of human genes (AMP v. Myriad, decided by the Supreme Court in 2013).

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Washington, US