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Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government’s biodefense program, at George Mason University, and the author of Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development (Cornell University Press, 2014).


Articles by Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley

Biological researcher He Jiankui (right) attends the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong on November 28, 2018 in Hong Kong, China. Photo by Zhang Wei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images.

Follow the money: What the sources of Jiankui He’s funding reveal about what Beijing authorities knew about illegal CRISPR babies, and when they knew it

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Kathleen M. Vogel | Biosecurity

Follow the money: What the sources of Jiankui He’s funding reveal about what Beijing authorities knew about illegal CRISPR babies, and when they knew it

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Kathleen M. Vogel

The dread and the awe: Crispr’s inventor assesses her creation

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Book Review, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security
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Potemkin or real? North Korea’s biological weapons program

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley | Analysis, Biosecurity

Gene drives: The good, the bad, and the hype

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics, Technology and Security