Breath of Life Conference 2007
Mae Wan HoMae-Wan Ho obtained her BS in Biology in 1964 and her PhD in Biochemistry in 1967 from Hong Kong University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Biochemical Genetics from 1968-1972 at the University of California in San Diego during which time she won a competitive fellowship of the US National Genetics Foundation. She then became a Senior Research Fellow in Queen Elizabeth College in the UK. Ho then became a lecturer in Genetics in 1976 and a reader in Biology in 1985 in the London Open University. In 1999, Ho founded ISIS, The Institute of Science in Society in London, to promote her views and views of other scientists of like-mind. Dr. Ho retired in June 2000 and remains a Visiting Reader in Biology at the Open University and is a visiting Biophysics professor in Catania University, Sicily. Today, Dr. Ho has close to 300 publications including 47 experimental works. (ISIS,2004) Dr. Mae-Wan Ho has been one of the most influential figures of the last decade in the debate within the scientific community regarding the use of genetically modified organisms. She is a highly consulted scientific figure with many theories relating to her vehement anti-GM stance. She is also a well-known critic of neo-Darwinism and reductionist thought in Biology and Physics.
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