Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. currently serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He writes and speaks widely on bioethics and medical ethics. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters expressed in the brain. He later worked as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He studied for 5 years in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and in bioethics. He has testified before members of the Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maryland, Virginia and Oregon State Legislatures during deliberations over stem cell research and cloning, and regularly offers media commentaries on bioethics. He writes a monthly newspaper column on bioethics.
