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June 15, 2006
Dr. Arthur Daemmrich, Director, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 6/14/06
Dr. Arthur Daemmrich is the director of the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. He earned a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University and a B.A. in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. The projects he supervises at CHF bring long-range perspectives to bear on issues in innovation, globalization, risk, health, and environmental policy.
Dr. Daemmrich has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council/Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He has published on biotechnology policy and politics, the sociology of medicine, and pharmaceutical drug regulation, and is editor or author of three books.
The Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation carries out projects at the interface of contemporary chemical and molecular sciences and technologies, industry, and science policy. The center is built on the core principle that history and policy are domains that should inform one another. The center is structured around a group of programs that draw upon diverse historical and contemporary source materials to provide knowledge and advice to stakeholders from industry, academia, government, and citizen groups. The center’s programs record, characterize, and analyze the economic, health, and environmental changes associated with advances in science, technology, and medicine.
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