Moderator
Nancy L. Buc, esq.

Attorney at Law, Buc & Beardsley, Washington, D.C.; former General Counsel, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; member of major government panels including the Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Committee on New Developments in Biotechnology.

Introduction to the Panelists and Moderator
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Detailed Biography:

Nancy L. Buc, esq., is a partner in the law firm of Buc & Beardsley in Washington, D.C. She served as General Counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1980 to 1981. During an earlier period of government service, she served successively as Attorney-Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Assistant Director of that agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

A member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development and its Committee on NIDA Medications Development, she was also a member of the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee and its Consensus Panel on Effective Medical Treatment of Heroin Addiction.

She served as a member of the Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Committee on New Developments in Biotechnology and its panel on Government Policies and Pharmaceutical Research and Development. She was also a member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section's Special Committee to Study the Federal Trade Commission, and is a member of FDLI's Advisory Board. Ms. Buc is a director of Agritope, Inc., the Virginia Law School Foundation, and the Women's Legal Defense Fund.

She is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Ms. Buc holds an honorary doctor of laws from Brown and is a fellow emerita of the Brown Corporation, that university's governing board.

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