David DeGrazia is Elton Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, whose faculty he joined in 1989. From July 2013 through June 2021 he was also Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health. DeGrazia earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago (1983), an M.Stud. from Oxford University (1987), and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University (1989), all in Philosophy. His research interests focus primarily in applied ethics and ethical theory and secondarily in personal identity theory and the philosophy of mind/cognitive sciences. DeGrazia's ten published books include: Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (Cambridge University Press, 1996); Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (Oxford University Press, 2012); with Tom Beauchamp, Principles of Animal Research Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020); and, with Joseph Millum, A Theory of Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2021). In addition to books, DeGrazia has published over 140 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia articles, and shorter writings—most of them solo-authored—in such journals as Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, The Hastings Center Report, Public Affairs Quarterly, and ILAR Journal. His research has been supported by major grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Institutes of Health (before he became an employee), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice). In 2012, he worked part-time as Senior Advisor to the staff of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He also served, at GW, a three-year term as Chair of the Philosophy Department. Outside of GW, he has served as Co-Chair of the 2000 Program Committee for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine for the American Philosophical Association. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Public Affairs Quarterly and The Journal of Applied Ethics. In 2018 he was named a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the recipient of GW's Office of the Vice President of Research Distinguished Scholar Award. In 2023 he received GW's Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Research.