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Mina Alikani, MS, Ph.D. Candidate
Senior Research Scientist
Tyho-Galileo Research Laboratories
LLC West Orange, NJ |
Ms. Alikani is a Senior Research Scientist with Tyho-Galileo Research Laboratories, West Orange, New Jersey. A biologist by training, Ms. Alikani was employed by the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility of Cornell University Medical Center-The New York Hospital from 1989-1995 and from 1995-2004, she co-directed the IVF Laboratory of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in West Orange, New Jersey. A Ph.D. Candidate in the Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University, with Professor Alan Trounson as Sponsor and Advisor, Ms. Alikani’s dissertation is on Origins and Clinical Consequences of Atypical Division in Human Embryos in vitro. She has written and presented widely on embryo fragmentation in development.
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Maureen L. Condic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT |
Dr. Condic is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Pediatrics. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago , her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley , and postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota . Since her appointment at the University of Utah in 1997, Dr. Condic’s primary focus has been the development and regeneration of the nervous system and the control of neurite outgrowth and axon guidance of embryonic neurons. In 1999, she was awarded the Basil O’Connor Young Investigator Award for her studies of peripheral nervous system development. In 2002, she was named a McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Investigator, in recognition of her research in the field of adult spinal cord regeneration. In addition to her scientific research, Dr. Condic teaches both graduate and medical students. She has published and presented seminars nationally and internationally on science policy and bioethics.
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Mary Devereaux, Ph.D.
Director
Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series Research Ethics Program
University of California San Diego, California
La Jolla, CA |
A specialist in bioethics and aesthetics, Dr. Devereaux is a member of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD. She is Director of the Biomedical Ethics Seminar, a monthly meeting of research scientists, medical clinicians, philosophers, and administrators to discuss issues such as medical futility, human subjects research, stem cell research, etc., and Tough Cases, an ethics program for medical students and other graduate students. Dr. Devereaux’s current research focuses on issues of medical enhancement such as cosmetic surgery, gene therapy, and psychopharmacology and how increasing patient demands for these services affect the definition and professional norms of medicine. She currently consults and presents widely on the ethics of human embryonic stem cell research and development of research policy. Dr. Devereaux serves on the Human Subjects Committee IRB at The Burnham Institute and belongs to The American Philosophical Association, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, The Association for Women in Science and the American Society for Aesthetics.
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Kevin C. Eggan, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard Society of Fellows
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
Kevin Eggan received his Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February of 2003. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and he will begin a position as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Harvard in the fall of 2005. Dr. Eggan has devoted the last seven years to performing stem cell research. He is currently leading a research group that is investigating the mechanisms regulating epigenetic reprogramming after somatic cell nuclear transfer and using nuclear transfer techniques to derive disease-specific human embryonic stem cell lines from diabetic and Parkinson’s patients. His accomplishments include cloning mice from olfactory sensory neurons, deriving embryonic stem cells, and characterizing the abnormalities that sometimes arise as a result of nuclear transfer.
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Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, California
La Jolla, CA |
Dr. Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine , at the University of California , San Diego . He is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center , the Hereditary Disease Foundation, and the Ellison Medical Foundation and has over 100 publications. Dr. Goldstein received his B.A. degree in biology and genetics from UCSD in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of Washington , Seattle in 1980. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1980-1983 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983-1984. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology from 1984-1993 and moved to UCSD and HHMI in 1993. His awards include a Senior Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation, an American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award, and the Loeb Chair in Natural Sciences when he was at Harvard University . His research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of intracellular movement in neurons and the role of transport dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases. His lab provided the first molecular descriptions of kinesin structure and organization, and has recently discovered important links between transport processes and diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's Disease. Dr. Goldstein has also had an active role in national science policy. He has served on many public science advisory committees, has written about, spoken about, and been interviewed on numerous occasions on science issues by print and broadcast media, and has testified on a number of occasions in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about NIH funding and stem cell research. As a cofounder and consultant of the biotechnology company Cytokinetics, he has also had an active role in private industry.
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Lawrence M. Hinman, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the Values Institute
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA |
Lawrence M. Hinman is Director of the Values Institute and Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego , where he has been teaching since 1975, and he is co-founder with Dr. Kalichman of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology. Hinman is the author of two widely-used texts in ethics, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 3rd ed. ( Wadsworth , 2002) and Contemporary Moral Issues, 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2005). He has published numerous scholarly articles in ethics in journals such as Ethics, The Moralist, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Criminal Justice Ethics, Computers and Society, Ethics and Information Technology, and Teaching Philosophy; he has also contributed to numerous anthologies in ethics. Translations of his articles have appeared in German and Italian. He also publishes op-ed pieces in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Hinman is also actively engaged in developing Ethics Across the Curriculum (EAC) programs at the University of San Diego and around the country. As part of the USD EAC program, he has brought such notable speakers to USD as Carol Gilligan, Daniel Callahan, Michael Walzer, and Michael Josephson. Most recently, he has been developing ethics-related workshops and components for middle school and high school students in the Pacific Northwest. He has received several grants in this area, including two grants from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation for fostering the development of ethics across the curriculum programs on the high school and middle school levels. He has also organized several major conferences in philosophy, including Kantian Ethics: Interpretations and Critiques (January 2003). Hinman is a member of the Board of the American Philosophical Association and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. He is a past member of the APA Committee on Computing and Philosophy and chairs the APA Committee on Teaching and Philosophy in 2003-05, and for several years has been on the Steering Committee for the Computing and Philosophy (CAP) Conference at Carnegie-Mellon.
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William B. Hurlbut, M.D.
Physician and
Consulting Professor
Program in Human Biology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
William B. Hurlbut is a Physician and Consulting Professor in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University . Born in St. Helena California , he grew up in Bronxville , New York . After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University , he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris. In addition to teaching at Stanford, he currently serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics. His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. His courses in biomedical ethics in the Program in Human Biology include: Biology, Technology and Human Life, and Ethical Issues in the Neurosciences. He has also taught a course on genetics and human origins with Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Director of the Human Genome Diversity Project and a course on epidemics, evolution and ethics with Dr. Baruch Blumberg who received the Nobel Prize for discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Working Group at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and has worked with NASA on projects in Astrobiology.
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Michael Kalichman, Ph.D.
Director
Research Ethics Program
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA |
Michael Kalichman is co-founder with Dr. Hinman of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology. A member of the Division of Neuropathology in the Department of Pathology, Kalichman is the Director of the UCSD Research Ethics Program. From 1986 through much of the 1990s, his research on the toxic effects of local anesthetics to peripheral nerves and on diabetic neuropathy was supported by grants principally from the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1988, Dr. Kalichman first taught a course in scientific methods and research ethics for biomedical research trainees in the UCSD School of Medicine. He currently offers seminars and courses to help UCSD Training Grant Program Directors comply with NIH requirements for training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR), and teaches multiple courses in research ethics for UCSD graduate students and postdocs. Dr. Kalichman has been an invited participant or speaker at many meetings and workshops, including: Data Management in Biomedical Research (Dept. Health and Human Services, 1990); Biomedical Research Integrity in the 90s (sponsored by NIH, AAMC, and UCSD, San Diego, 1990); The Responsible Conduct of Research: A Commitment for all Scientists (PRIM&R, San Diego, 1996); Teaching Responsible Science (National Academy of Sciences, 1997); Attribution of Credit (Management of Biomedical Research Laboratories , Office of Research Integrity and University of Arizona, 1998); Educating for the Responsible Conduct of Research in the New Millennium (PRIM&R, Bethesda, 1999); review of a proposed PHS Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research (Office of Research Integrity, 2000); and a panel of RCR experts invited to consult with NIH on evaluating the training grant RCR requirement (Bethesda, 2003). He is director of a Web-based project funded by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and others to help institutions develop programs of instruction in the responsible conduct of research ( http://rcr.ucsd.edu). Dr. Kalichman currently leads an NIH-funded project to assess the effectiveness of teaching research ethics.
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Frances M. Kamm, Ph.D.
Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
Frances Kamm is the Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University . Professor Kamm specializes in normative ethical theory and problems in practical ethics related to medicine and law. She has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association of University Women, Columbia Law School, the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health, and she was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization. She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Utilitas, and Legal Theory, and the advisory board of Routledge International Library of Philosophy. She is the author of Creation and Abortion (1992); Morality, Mortality, Vol 1: Death and Whom to Save From It (1993); Morality, Mortality, Vol 2: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996) – all from Oxford University Press. Current research interests include aspects of nonconsequentialist ethical theory, rights, bioethics, war, and morality.
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Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.
Director of Education
The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Philadelphia, PA |
Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts , and currently Director of Education for The National Catholic Bioethics Center. As an undergraduate he earned degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry, and did laboratory research on hormonal regulation of the immune response. He later earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University , where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters that are expressed in the brain. He also worked for several years as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Fr. Tad studied for five years in Rome where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and in bioethics, examining the question of delayed ensoulment of the human embryo. He has testified before members of the Massachusetts and Wisconsin State Legislatures during deliberations over a bill to ban human cloning. He has given presentations and participated in roundtables on stem cells, cloning, and other biotechnologies throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
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Adam L. Schulman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Consultant
President’s Council on Bioethics
Washington, DC |
Adam Schulman is Senior Research Consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics in Washington , D.C. As a member of the council staff since 2003, he has done research on a variety of bioethical topics, including preimplantation genetic screening of embryos; use of drugs to modify behavior in children; muscle augmentation and enhancement of athletic performance; life-extension and age-retardation; use of drugs for mood-brightening and memory-blunting; assisted reproductive technologies; human stem cell research; human cloning; and ethical aspects of aging, dementia, and end-of-life care. Recently, he supervised the preparation of the Council’s May 2005 White Paper Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Dr. Schulman was educated at the University of Chicago (BA Chemistry), Oxford University (BA in Physics and Philosophy), and at Harvard University (MA, Ph.D. History of Science), and he has taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis , Maryland since 1989.
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Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and
Program Director
Stem Cells and Regeneration
The Burnham Institute
La Jolla, CA |
Evan Snyder earned his M.D. and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology at Children's Hospital-Boston and postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. In 1992, Dr. Snyder was appointed an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1996. In 2001, Dr. Snyder was recruited to The Burnham Institute as Professor and Director of the Stem Cells and Regeneration program.
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Alan Trounson (guest panelist)
Scientific Director
Institute of Reproduction and Development Faculty of Medicine
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
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Professor Alan Trounson from Melbourne 's Monash University is one of Australia 's leading reproductive biologists. Alan completed his PhD at Sydney University in 1974, before being awarded a three-year Dalgety International Research Fellowship at the Agricultural Research Council’s Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry in Cambridge , where he developed embryo transfer and pioneered embryo freezing techniques in domestic animal species. His work in devising culture methods for fertilization of human eggs and the development of the IVF embryo established IVF as a suitable technique for the treatment of human infertility that was adopted worldwide. His research has lead to continuing advances in IVF including sperm microinjection, embryo biopsy, oocyte maturation, and improved embryo freezing methods. He was awarded a Personal Chair at Monash University in 1991, and he has received numerous medals and awards for his contributions to medical research, including the Wellcome Australia Award, the British Fertility Society Patrick Steptoe Memorial Medal, and Singapore’s Benjamin Henry Sheares Medal in O&G, and the Bertarelli Foundation Award in Reproductive Health. He spends significant time overseas at conferences informing IVF practitioners and discussing his current research interests which include male infertility, ovarian tissue transplantation, and embryonic stem cells.
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Derek J. van der Kooy, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Biophysics and Medical Genetics and Microbiology
Professor, Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Beginning with a B.Sc. from University of Toronto in physiological psychology, Derek van der Kooy earned his Master's in psychology and neuroscience from University of British Columbia. Following his 1978 doctorate work in anatomy, supervised by H.G.J.M. Kuypers at Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Derek returned to the University of Toronto and completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor T. Hattori in the Department of Anatomy. Dr. van der Kooy then went on to Cambridge University, where he did postdoctoral research in neurochemical pharmacology with L.L. Iversen, then to further postdoctoral work at The Salk Institute in California with F.E. Bloom, where his research was focused on behavioral neurobiology. In 1981, Derek van der Kooy was appointed to Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Toronto. He served as Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the U of T from 1991 until 2002. Currently Derek van der Kooy is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology at University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to graduate faculty in both the Department of Medical Biophysics and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Professor van der Kooy's lab carries out various neuroscience and developmental biology research projects. In 1994 his paper on neural stem cells in the adult mammalian forebrain was published in the journal Neuron. This work first established that adult mammalian neural stem cells were located in the subependyma of the forebrain lateral ventricle, where two types of lineage related precursor cells, progenitor cells and stem cells, were shown to be present. Proliferation of these cell types were characterized in further experiments that were reported in articles in Development and the Journal of Neuroscience. Of note, Derek's lab produced the first report of stem cells in the adult mammalian eye, published in 2000 in Science. Further work, which was published in the journal, Neuron, 2001, documented how ES cells were shown to differentiate directly to neural stem cells through a default mechanism. Derek's lab continues to investigate the nature of stem cells, embryonic and adult, the concept of immortal cells, and the differentiation of embryonic stem cells, which are capable of forming any tissue in the body, to neural stem cells. Derek van der Kooy organized the initial two years of the McLaughlin Stem Cell Rounds, a monthly meeting with seminar presentations of the pioneering research of stem cell investigators in the Toronto area, and guest speakers worldwide.
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Howard A. Zucker, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology
Columbia University
New York, NY |
Dr. Zucker is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Pediatric Director of the Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Cardiologist, and Director of the Pediatric Transport Program. Dr. Zucker is a founding member of the Little Hearts Foundation and has traveled on medical missions to China with the Children of China Pediatrics Foundation, helping orphans in need of reconstructive cardiac surgery. He holds a B.S. degree from McGill University, and M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine, a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. In 2001, he spent a year in the White House Fellowship program as the fellow assigned to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson. At HHS he worked on a range of issues, including genetics/tissue engineering, bioterrorism and public health preparedness, and formation of the Medical Reserve Corps. He next was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
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