Tania Simoncelli

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• Cornell University {{Small|(BA)}}
• University of California, Berkeley {{Small|(MS)}}

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• Broad Institute
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Food and Drug Administration
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Tania Simoncelli is Senior Advisor to the Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.{{Cite web|url=http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/research/research-affiliates/tania-simoncelli/|title=Tania Simoncelli|last=|first=|date=|website=Harvard University|access-date=July 2, 2017}} Prior to that position, she worked for two years as Assistant Director for Forensic Science and Biomedical Innovation within the Office of Science and Technology Policy.The White House, [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/cto OSTP Leadership and Staff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719221852/http://www.whitehouse.gov/cto |date=2013-07-19 }} From 2010 to 2013, she worked in the Food and Drug Administration's Office of the Commissioner.[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/Tania-Simoncelli The White House Blog] From 2003 to 2010, Simoncelli worked as the Science Advisor to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she advised the organization on emerging developments in science and technology that pose challenges for civil liberties.

In December 2013, Simoncelli was named by the journal Nature as one of "ten people who mattered this year" for her work in spearheading the development of the ACLU's successful legal challenge to the patenting of human genes.{{citation |title=Ten people who mattered this year |journal=Nature |volume=504 |issue=7480 |pages=357–365 |date=18 December 2013|doi=10.1038/504357a |pmid=24352276 |doi-access=free }} In August 2017, she was named Director of Policy for Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-simoncelli-97953972 {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}

Simoncelli has spoken, written, and advised on a number of contemporary science policy issues, including personalized medicine,U.S. Food and Drug Administration, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101204259/http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/PersonalizedMedicine/UCM372421.pdf Paving the Way for Personalized Medicine: FDA’s Role in a New Era of Medical Product Development], October 2013 (Prepared by T. Simoncelli). gene patenting,{{citation |author1=Park, S. |author2=Simoncelli, T. |url=http://www.americanbar.org/publications/scitech_lawyer/2012/fall/making_case_against_gene_patents.html |title=Making the Case Against Gene Patents |publisher=The SciTech Lawyer |date=Fall 2012 |volume=9 |number=2}}{{citation |author=Andrew Ma |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/24/gene-patenting-hls-discussion/ |title=HLS Panel Discusses Gene Patents |journal=The Harvard Crimson |date=September 24, 2013 }}{{citation |author=Alvin Powell |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/genes-without-patents/ |title=Genes Without Patents |publisher=The Harvard Gazette |date=November 14, 2013}} forensic DNA data banks,Simoncelli, T. and S. Krimsky, [https://www.acslaw.org/publications/issue-briefs/a-new-era-of-dna-collections-at-what-cost-to-civil-liberties “A New Era of DNA Collections: At What Cost to Civil Liberties?”]

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, August 2007.

Simoncelli, T., [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2006.00045.x/abstract “Dangerous Excursions: The Case Against Expanding Forensic DNA Databases to Innocent Persons,”] Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer) 2006, pp. 390-397. pesticide testing in humans,Krimsky, S. and T. Simoncelli, [http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/2405&maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=simoncelli&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT “Testing Pesticides in Humans: Of Mice and Men Divided by Ten,”] JAMA, Vol. 297, No. 21 (June 6) 2007: pp. 2405-2407. and academic freedom.Simoncelli, Tania, and Jay Stanley. [https://www.aclu.org/national-security/science-under-siege-bush-administration-aclu-charges Science Under Siege: The Bush Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom and Scientific Inquiry.] New York, NY: American Civil Liberties Union, 2005. She is co-author with Sheldon Krimsky of Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties.{{Cite book |last=Krimsky |first=Sheldon |title=Genetic justice: DNA data banks, criminal investigations and civil liberties |last2=Simoncelli |first2=Tania |date=2012 |publisher=Columbia Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-231-14520-6 |edition= |location=New York}}