From Promise to Practice - A New Epoch for Stem Cell Research

BROCHER SYMPOSIUM

Brocher Center, 4^th September 2009

From Promise to Practice

A New Epoch for Stem Cell Research

Chair : Christopher Thomas Scott

REGISTRATION FORM  

MORNING SESSION : Medical and Ethical Implications

9.15 am            Stem Cells in the Clinic

Christopher Thomas Scott, Director, Stanford University Program on Stem Cells in Society

9.45 am:           The Rise of Stem Cell Tourism                                            

Timothy Caulfield, Director of Health Law,

University of Alberta

10.15 am:         Coffee Break

10.45 am:         The Embryonic Dilemma : Which disease, how safe?

Outi Hovatta, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology,

Karolinska Institute

11.15 am:         Roundtable Discussion 

12.15 am:         Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION : Political and Legal Perspectives

1.30 pm:           A Parliamentarian’s Perspective : Lawmaking in biology’s newest frontier

Senator Kay Patterson, Former Federal Australian Health Minister, Vice Chancellor’s Professional Fellow,

University of Monash

2.00 pm:           A Fractured Landscape of Stem Cell Patents : Who owns what?

Aurora Plomer, Chair in Law and Bioethics, Director of SIBLE, School of Law,

 University of Sheffield

2.30 pm:           Coffee Break

3.00 pm:           The State of the Stem Cell Industry

Paul Martin, Reader in Science and Technology Studies, Deputy Director,

                        University of Nottingham

3.30 pm:           Roundtable Discussion

4.30 pm :          Concluding remarks

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