2012 04 April Michael Morgan/Susan Wallace interview

Michael Morgan and Susan Wallace, telephone interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, conducted from Durham, NC, 4 April 2012. Michael Morgan joined the Wellcome Trust in 1983 as a Program Manager for Molecular and Cell Biology. By 1996, he was the Director of Research Partnerships and Ventures at the Trust. A biologist by training and a strong proponent of rapid data release, Morgan planned the Bermuda meetings and was a chief figure both in the Wellcome Trust’s adoption of the Principles as policies, and the translation of the Principles into government policies outside the U.K. At the time of the 1996 Bermuda meeting, Susan Wallace was Administrator of the Americas office of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in Bethesda, one of three HUGO offices that then existed. (The other two were in London, HUGO Europe, and in Japan, HUGO Asia.) In this capacity, Wallace attended the first two HUGO meetings. This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. Keywords: Human Genome Project, HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy Meetings on Human Genome Sequencing, data sharing, science policy, genomics, genome, genome sequence, genetics, DNA sequence, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, NIH, National Institutes of Health, DOE, Department of Energy, Wellcome Trust, HUGO, HUGO Americas, HUGO Europe, HUGO Asia, Michael Morgan, Susan Wallace.