David A. Prentice, Ph.D.

Scientist and Policy Advisor

David A. Prentice, Ph.D. has almost 50 years’ experience as a scientific researcher, professor, academic leader and policy advisor. He is the former Advisory Board Chair and a Founding Member for the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, a unique comprehensive adult stem cell center in Kansas that he was instrumental in creating. He is also the former VP and research director at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Dr. Prentice established Stem Cell Research Facts, an educational website about adult stem cells. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Kansas. His previous service includes at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Family Research Council, Professor of Life Sciences as well as Acting Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Indiana State University, Adjunct Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Genetics at the John Paul II Institute, The Catholic University of America.

Dr. Prentice is an internationally-recognized expert on stem cell research, cell biology and bioethics. He has received numerous awards including the Walter C. Randall Award in Biomedical Ethics from the American Physiological Society, given for promoting the honor and integrity of biomedical science through example and mentoring in the classroom and laboratory. He has provided scientific lectures, policy briefings and legislative testimonies in 40 states and 21 countries, including before the U.S. House and Senate and numerous state legislatures, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics, European Parliament, British Parliament, Canadian Parliament, Australian Parliament, German Bundestag, French Senate, Swedish Parliament, the United Nations, and the Vatican. In 2020, he was appointed by the Secretary of HHS to the federal Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board.

Dr. Prentice has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific and bioethics articles, including a review of stem cell science and adult stem cell treatments, has reviewed for various professional publications and been interviewed in virtually all major media outlets. He has also published many public commentaries and op-eds, and travels nationally and internationally to give invited lectures and advise professionals, policymakers and the public regarding stem cell research, fetal tissue research, gene editing, cloning, embryology, cell, molecular and developmental biology, cell culture and vaccines, biochemistry, biotechnology, bioethics, and science policy.