Mark Dennis Robinson

Mark Dennis Robinson is an affiliated fellow and former ISP Residential Fellow at Yale Law School. Robinson joined Yale from Harvard Law School, where he was a student fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Robinson is an Associate Professor at Creighton University’s School of Medicine. Robinson is also the founder and CEO of Semiotica Cybernetics, a startup that has developed groundbreaking IP in artificial intelligence and advanced robotics.

His recent book, The Market in Mind: How Financialization Is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine, and Innovation in Biotechnology (MIT Press), was the first to trace the unforeseen impacts of pharmacoeconomic shifts on experimental-level decisions in translational neuroscience and their implications for global biopharmaceutical innovation.

A graduate of Yale's conservatory program for actors, Robinson holds a master’s degree in Bioethics from Harvard Medical School, master’s degrees from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University, and a degree in the ethics of artificial intelligence from the University of Cambridge