Allison Williams Dobson, J.D., Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for Genomics and Society. Her research interests cover a broad range of topics at the intersection of medical sciences and law, including but not limited to biotechnology patent law, genomics, personalized medicine, and genetic privacy issues arising from the advent of DNA biobanking for research purposes and DNA profile databases maintained for law enforcement and investigation purposes. Allison completed a B.S. in Applied Biology at Georgia Tech (1996), a Ph.D. in Basic Medical Sciences at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine (2001), an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Toxicology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (2003), and a J.D. focused on intellectual property law at the University of North Carolina School of Law (2009). She also taught Anatomy & Physiology as assistant professor of biology at Winston-Salem State University (2004-2006).