February 24, 2006

stem cell policy and practice

Speakers:
Dr Ruth Faden, Executive Director of The Bioethics Institute, John Hopkins University
Prof Julian Savulescu, Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre For Practical Ethics
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, Head of Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute For Medical Research
Prof Ryuichi Ida, Chairperson of International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, Kyoto University
Dr Peter Donovan, PhD professor of Developmental & Cell Biology, University of California

The world’s leading stem cell scientists and bioethicists from 14 different countries attended a conference in Cambridge to explore the challenges that scientists, universities and scientific journals face across national boundaries. The SMC invited several attendees to brief the media on the main conclusions of the conference and the formation of the new ‘Hinxton Group’ for stem cell policy.