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Public Service and Outreach: Stem Cell Symposium
The La Follette School of Public Affairs and the WiCell Research Institute present
The Potential of Stem
Cells:
Public Policy Issues Beyond the Microscope
Friday, March 2, 2007
1-5 p.m. (with reception to follow)
Howard Auditorium,
Fluno Center for Executive Education
601 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin
This half-day symposium will explore the public policy issues related to stem-cell research, including the legal, regulatory and legislative environment that affects how pioneering research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is conducted. How public policy issues related to stem-cell research are addressed will affect other scientific advances.
Information or to register: acmacdonald@wisc.edu or (608) 263-6041.
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Barbara Wolfe is Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs and serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. Her research focuses broadly on poverty and health issues. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and vice-chair of the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine Board on Children, Youth, and Families. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. | |
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Carl E. Gulbrandsen is the Managing Director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the patent management organization for the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Director of WiCell Research Institute. WARF is a recipient of the 2003 National Medal of Technology. Gulbrandsen has a Ph.D in physiology and a J.D. degree, both from UWMadison. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. he is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Physiology at UW-Madison and lectures in the master of science biotechnology program. He is a board member and a member of the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He is a member of the Patent Public Advisory Board for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. | |
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Bradford L. Barham is Chair of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also serves as Co-Director of UW-Madisons Program on Agricultural Technology Studies. Barhams active research projects focus on agricultural biotechnology adoption, university ag-biotech patents and spillovers, structural change in Wisconsin dairy farming, the equity and efficiency impacts of land market reforms in Central America, and resource use patterns of peasants in biodiverse regions of the Peruvian Amazon. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. Presentation slides | |
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Jeremy Foltz is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the Associate Director of the Program on Agricultural and Technology Studies at UW-Madison. His research interests include the microeconomics of technology adoption, farm structure, agricultural biotechnology, intellectual property rights, land use, and economic development. Foltz received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from UW-Madison. Presentation slides | |
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Stephen M. Maurer is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as the Director of the Information Technology and Homeland Security Project at the Goldman School. Maurers research interests include open source biology, incentives for developing drugs and vaccines for the developing world, patent law, and academic/industry transactions. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Presentation slides | |
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Pilar Ossorio is an Associate Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also serves on the faculty for the graduate program in Population Health at UW-Madison. Ossorio is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics and a member of the National Academy of Science's Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. She received her J.D. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University. | |
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Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving on the faculties of the Law School and the Medical School. Charo is a member of the National Academies Institute of Medicine. In 2005, she helped to draft the Academies Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research and currently serves as Co-Chair of its Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. She also serves on the ethics advisory boards of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She received her J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. | |