Aristides Patrinos, telephone interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, conducted from Durham, NC, 1 September 2011. Patrinos served as the Acting Director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, from 1993-1995, a position he obtained permanently in March of 1995. In this role, Patrinos held responsibility for the biological and environmental research efforts within DOE, including the HGP. Patrinos’ predecessors, Charles DeLisi and David Galas, launched this effort within DOE in the 1980’s. This transcript is available beginning 19 October 2014. Keywords: Human Genome Project, HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy ...