WSU researcher named to prestigious committee

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A Wright State University researcher has been named to a prestigious committee that since the 1970s has reviewed potentially risky research projects, which now focus on curing diseases through human gene transfer.

Dawn Wooley this week will attend her first meeting of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, which reports to the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins.

Recombinant DNA brings together genetic materials from multiple sources — so it would not otherwise exist. It is found in insect-resistant crops, the hepatitis B vaccine and in some cutting-edge treatments of cancer, said Wooley, who has taught and conducted research on viruses at Wright State since 1995. She works in the Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology at Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine.

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