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Planned symposium topics. STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9,
2006--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.

Stanford University Medical Center integrates research, medical
education and patient care at its three institutions -- Stanford
University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile
Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. For more information, please
visit the Web site of the medical center's Office of Communication &
Public Affairs at http://mednews.stanford.edu.