Stanford Report, January 11, 2006

Jan. 20 symposiumon stem cell ethics

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics' Program on Stem Cells and Society is hosting a Jan. 20 symposium that will review the ethical and societal issues raised by embryonic and adult stem cell research. It will be held 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.

Other speakers include Christopher Scott, executive director of the stem cell and society program; law professor Hank Greely, JD; David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics; Bernard Lo, MD, director of the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF; Alta Charo, JD, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, and Judy Illes, PhD, director of Stanford's neuroethics program.