John Boik

John Boik is president of New Earth BioMed, a 501(c)3 nonprofit cancer research organization he founded in 2010. Dr. Boik received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, Houston. He completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Department of Statistics. Creating Sustainable Societies: The Rebirth of Democracy and Local Economies is Dr. Boik’s first book outside of the biomedical research field. In it, he applies systems thinking, an important perspective in biology, to our wider financial, economic, and governance systems. His other books include Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy (2001) and Cancer and Natural Medicine (1996).