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MEDIA ADVISORY: STEM CELL SYMPOSIUM AT STANFORD ON JAN. 20
Event features Science editor-in-chief discussing controversy over publication of fraudulent research
STANFORD — Stem cell research raises the hope of cures for currently untreatable diseases, but the work also raises serious issues — about how the stem cells are made, how eggs for the research are collected and how the research is conducted.
Reporters are invited to a symposium, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics’ Program on Stem Cells and Society, that will review the ethical and societal issues raised by embryonic and adult stem cell research. Christopher Scott, executive director of the program, said he hopes the event answers some questions about stem cell research and presents thought-provoking perspectives on the future of this work.
The symposium, organized by Scott and PSCS director Hank Greely, JD, the Dean F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor in Law, will be held Jan. 20 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital auditorium.
Topics include the ethics of egg donation, the realities of cord blood banking, the creation of chimeric animals and differences in stem cell policy between the United States and other countries. A keynote address by Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy, PhD, president emeritus of Stanford University, will review what’s known about the apparent stem cell research fraud in South Korea.
Stanford speakers include Scott; Greely; Mildred Cho, PhD, associate director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics; Judy Illes, PhD, director of the center’s program in neuroethics; David Magnus, PhD, the center’s director; Jennifer McCormick, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at the center, and PCSC member Kenneth Taymor, JD.
Additional speakers are Tim Caulfield, LLP, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta; Bernard Lo, MD, director of the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF, and Alta Charo, JD, the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin .
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