Professor Newman is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College and a fellow at the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future. He is a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and has testified before Congressional committees regarding patenting organisms, human stem cells, and cloning. Dr. Newman was a consultant to the National Institutes of Health regarding the use of human fetal tissue for research, an INSERM Fellow at the Pasteur Institute (Paris), and a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University (Australia). Additionally, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Paris-Sud, the French Atomic Energy Center-Saclay, the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Vienna), and the University of Tokyo. Dr. Newman has contributed to several scientific fields, including biophysical chemistry, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory, and is co-author, with Gabor Forgacs, of the forthcoming textbook, Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo.