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    • AGENDA

    Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

    Board on Life Sciences

    Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning

    August 7, 2001

    The National Academies

    Auditorium

    2101 Constitution Avenue; 2100 C Street, NW

    Washington, DC

    8:30 a.m.

    Welcome

    Bruce Alberts, President, The National Academy of Sciences, Chair, The National Research Council

    Irving Weissman, Chair, National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning and Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, Stanford University

    8:35 a.m.

    Overview of Embryology

    Moderator: Irving Weissman

    Speaker: Virginia Papaioannou, Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University

    8:50 a.m.

    Discussion

    9:00 am

    Scientific Issues Underlying Cloning

    Moderator: David Galas, Vice President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences and Panel Member

    Speakers:

    Rudolf Jaenisch, Professor of Biology, MIT Whitehead Institute

    Eric Schon, Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University

    9:45 a.m.

    Discussion

    10:00 am

    Break

    10:15 am

    Reproductive Cloning in Animals

    Moderator: Brigid Hogan, Hortense B. Ingram Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Panel Member


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