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Background:
Duana Fullwiley, an anthropologist of science and medicine, received her Ph.D from UC Berkeley in December of 2002. She is currently completing a book, with the working title “The Enculturated Gene: Making Sense of Sickle cell Difference in Modern Africa,” on how cultural practices of ensuring health actively inform genetic renderings of sickle cell anemia in contemporary Senegal. Her work on sickle cell has been funded by the NSF, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the USIA Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council and the National Academies of Science. As of January 2003, Fullwiley has embarked on new research in the United States on recent trends in American genome sciences that aim to tailor pharmaceuticals to individual genetic profiles (pharmacogenomics). As a Robert Wood Johnson scholar she will continue fieldwork in U.S. genomics laboratories, and other related sites, on how rationales of “tailored medicine” have created new grounds for genetic uses and understandings of race. As of spring 2006, she has also begun a third research project, which received RWJ seed grant funding, to investigate population differences in sickle cell trait expression. Fullwiley has been an invited scholar at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole des Mines de Paris in France, has held a postdoctoral research position at New York University, and has also been a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Upon completing her RWJ tenure at Harvard, on July 1, 2007 she will join the departments of Anthropology and African and African-American studies at Harvard University where she will be an Assistant Professor.

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