Robert P. Charrow is a lawyer who has served on a presidential election committee, as principal deputy general counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as vice chair of the Clinical Research Interest Group of the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, and as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Institute of Virology at the University of Maryland.
A superb review of the complex laws, regulations, and generally accepted procedure that relate to the conduct of biomedical research in the United States. Law in the Laboratory should be required reading for deans or heads of research, for academic faculty, for federal regulators, and for graduate students as a part of their introduction to legal and ethical aspects of biomedical research. - Katherine High, University of Pennsylvania