Dana Perkins received a PhD in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, U.S., and a M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry/Immunology from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is an independent consultant who worked until recently as a Senior Science Advisor with the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Perkins is a former member of the Group of Experts supporting the UN Security Council 1540 Committee on Weapons of Mass Destruction Non-Proliferation. She currently serves as a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the Responsible Use of the Life Sciences and Dual-Use Research (TAG- RULS DUR) which provides independent and strategic advice to WHO on technical areas relevant to the monitoring and mitigation of biorisks, advances in the life sciences and related technologies, the governance of dual-use research and the responsible use of the life sciences. She is also a Microbiologist with the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve; in this capacity, she has held several command positions in medical units and served as the Director of Women, Peace, and Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College.