The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee was
appointed in 2006 and subject to the National Academies'
normal procedures for public comments and committee composition
and balance. Biographies of the committee members may be found in the National
Academies
Current
Projects System.
R. Alta Charo (Co-Chair)
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Richard O. Hynes (Co-Chair)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eli Y. Adashi
Professor of Medical Science
Former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences and
Frank L. Day Professor of Biology
The Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Brigid L.M. Hogan
George Barth Geller Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center
Marcia Imbrescia
Owner, Peartree Design
Member, Board of Trustees, Arthritis Foundation
Terry Magnuson
Sarah Graham Kenan Professor and Chair
Department of Genetics
Director, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Linda B. Miller
President
Volunteer Trustees Foundation
Jonathan D. Moreno
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Pilar N. Ossorio
Associate Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
E. Albert Reece
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vice President for Medical Affairs
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Joshua R. Sanes
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Paul J. Finnegan Family Director, Center for Brain Science
Harvard University
Harold T. Shapiro
President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
John E. Wagner, Jr.
Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Director, Stem Cell Institute
University of Minnesota School of Medicine
Note (12/18/06): There has been a change in committee membership with the resignation of Dr. Stuart Orkin.
Staff
The following staff members from the National Research Council's
Board on Life Sciences and the
Institute of Medicine's
Board on Health Sciences
Policy support the work of the committee:
- Adam P. Fagen, Study Co-Director, Board on Life Sciences
- Bruce M. Altevogt, Study Co-Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
- Frances E. Sharples, Director, Board on Life Sciences
- Andrew M. Pope, Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
- Amanda P. Cline, Program Assistant, Board on Life Sciences
