Henry I. Miller

Who is Henry I. Miller?

Henry I. Miller is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank located on the university's campus in California. index.php His research focuses on public policy toward science and technology, encompassing a number of areas, including pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering in agriculture, models for regulatory reform, and the emergence of new viral diseases. He holds a B.S. degree in Life Sciences from M.I.T. and the M.Sc. and M.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego. Thereafter, he was a Clinical Fellow in Medicine and intern and resident at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital, and then was a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Philip Leder at the National Institutes of Health. He is the co-discoverer of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in influenza virus.

Miller served for fifteen years at the US Food and Drug Administration in a number of posts. He was the medical reviewer for the first genetically engineered drugs to be evaluated by the FDA and thus instrumental in the rapid licensing of genetically engineered human insulin and human growth hormone.