French Anderson, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and retired Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He also served as Director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at USC. Prior to joining USC in 1992, Dr. Anderson was Chief of the Molecular Hematology Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he also chaired the Department of Medicine and Physiology in the NIH Graduate Program.

Dr. Anderson led the team that carried out the world’s first successful human gene therapy clinical protocol in 1990 and is widely recognized as the “Father of Gene Therapy.” Over a career spanning more than four decades, he published over 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles in leading journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, and The New England Journal of Medicine, as well as articles for non-specialist audiences in Scientific American and Newsweek.

He has been featured extensively in national and international media and documentaries, received multiple honorary doctoral degrees, and holds numerous patents in molecular biology and gene therapy. Now retired from academic medicine, Dr. Anderson is writing definitive works based on his research and professional experience.