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CURRICULUM VITA and BIOSKETCH OF AUTHOR
John Bruce Fagan
Birth Date February 22, 1948
EDUCATIONUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.S., Cum Laude, 1971 in Chemistry
CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT
1971 - 1976: Predoctoral Research Assistant, Section of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell
RESEARCH FUNDING HISTORY
June 1986- Nov. 1994: Research Grant (RO1), Cytochrome P450 Gene Structure and
RECOGNITION AND HONORS
Frequent invited speaker, workshop organizer, and invited workshop moderator at international scientific meetings and symposia (over 20 international presentations in the last 10 years).
1980-1984 -- NIH Senior Staff Fellow, National Institutes of Health
PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than 30 technical articles in internationally-recognized, peer-reviewed journals, such as Molecular and Cellular Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry and many others.
Author of the book, Genetic Engineering: The Hazards, Vedic Engineering: The Solutions. This book reveals how genetic engineering offers only short-term partial fixes with damaging side-effects, while Maharishi's Vedic Engineering offers comprehensive, life-supporting solutions in the areas of health, agriculture and the environment.
___________________________________________________________________________John B. Fagan, Ph.D.
Dr. John Fagan has spent more than 23 years using cutting edge molecular genetic techniques in cancer research. He received a B.S. (cum laude with distinction in chemistry) from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Cornell University. Dr. Fagan then spent 7 years doing research in molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health, first as a postdoctoral fellow, and then, from 1980 to 1984, leading his own research group.
In 1984 Dr. Fagan joined the faculty at Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University from 1971 to 1995) in Fairfield, Iowa, where he is now Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and Co-director of the Physiology and Molecular and Cell Biology Ph.D. Program and Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
During his years at Maharishi University of Management, Dr. Fagan has received more than $2.5 million in grants from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to support research whose long-term goal has been to identify cancer susceptibility genes. Since 1991 Dr. Fagan has also been the recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute,which is given to enhance the research development of promising scientists.
In recent years Dr Fagan has been increasingly concerned about the dangers of germ-line genetic engineering in humans and about the hazards of releasing genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
In November of 1994, Dr. Fagan took an ethical stand against these applications, returning a $613,882 grant to the National Institutes of Health and withdrawing grant applications worth another $1.25 million. These would have supported research that might have contributed indirectly to the development of germ-line genetic engineering in humans. He urged scientists to take safer, more productive research directions, and has, himself, begun to research the natural health promotion and disease prevention strategies of Maharishi's Vedic Approach to Health.
Subsequetly, he has written a book, Genetic Engineering: The Hazards, Vedic Engineering: The Solutions, that reveals how genetic engineering offers only short-term partial fixes with damaging side-effects, while Maharishi's Vedic Engineering offers comprehensive, life-supporting solutions in the areas of health, agriculture and the environment.
Dr. Fagan is a frequent speaker at international scientific conferences, has served on peer-review committees for federal government-sponsored research grants, and is an editorial advisor and reviewer for scientific journals.
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