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Peter b andrews
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Peter J. Andrews is a seasoned attorney with over thirty years of experience, primarily concentrating in insurance coverage disputes and construction site accident/New York Labor Law matters.

Peter has taken and defended hundreds of depositions and has substantial motion practice experience.

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Education

Columbia University Law School, J.D. 1992, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
City University of New York (Hunter College), B.A. Political Science, 1989, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

Practicing litigation attorney of over 30 years, with a concentration in insurance coverage and construction site accident (New York Labor Law) matters.

Admissions

New York State Bar
United States District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Supreme Court

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Peter Andrews

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Peter Andrews talks about his schooling and tertiary education in Melbourne, and lists the institutions at which he worked in the 1970s and 1980s. He recalls that he was one of the first scientists in Australia working in the field of drug design.

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Peter Andrews describes hearing a radio interview in 1988 with Professor Don Watts, the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Bond University, and deciding he wanted to be involved in the country's first privately-owned university. He tells how he moved to Queensland shortly afterwards to become the first Dean of Science and Technology at Bond University.

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Peter Andrews tells how the bankruptcy of Bond University's founders, Alan Bond and Japanese businessman Harunori Takahashi, meant there was no available funding for the Science School. He recalls being invited in 1991 to take up a posting at the University of Queensland by its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Wilson.

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Professor Peter Andrews has devoted his research career to studying the biology of human embryonic stem (ES) cells and their malignant counterparts, embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells. Prof. Andrews was the first scientist in the UK to work with human ES cells, following the first derivation in 1998. Prof. Andrews’ laboratory studies the causes and consequences of the non-random genetic abnormalities observed in human ES cells after prolonged culture, as well as the progression of stem cell-based cancers. Further work is focused on using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell techniques to establish models to study pediatric cancers. Prof. Andrews was a co-founder and director of Axordia Ltd., one of the UK’s leading hESC companies (now a subsidiary of Pfizer) and has been involved in the derivation of several clinical-grade hESC lines (the Sheffield lines), deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank. Prof. Andrews coordinated the International Stem Cell Initiative and was the director of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform, a hub under the UKRMP. He is also on the editorial board of several stem