The President's Council on Bioethics: Third Meeting Agenda

April 25-26, 2002
Meeting Agenda

Hilton Crystal City at National Airport
2399 Jefferson Davis Highway
Dewey Room
Arlington, VA 22202

THURSDAY, APRIL 25 Full Transcript: HTML = 359K
Council Members Present
8:30 am	Session 1: Stem Cells 1: Medical Promise of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Present and Projected). Dr. John Gearhart, Johns Hopkins University.
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Session 2: Stem Cells 2: Medical Promise of Adult Stem Cell Research (Present and Projected). Dr. Catherine Verfaillie, University of Minnesota.
12:15 pm	Lunch.
1:30 pm	Session 3: Stem Cells 3: Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research. Dr. Gene Outka, Yale University: "The Ethics of Stem Cell Research"
3:00 pm	Break.
3:15 pm	Session 4: Human Cloning 10: Ethics of Cloning for Biomedical Research.
5:00 pm	Adjournment.
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 Full Transcript
Council Members Present
8:30 am	Session 5: Enhancement 1: Therapy vs. Enhancement (Preliminary Inquiry). Working Paper # 7: Distinguishing Therapy and Enhancement.
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Session 6: Regulation 1: Regulatory Approaches to New Biotechnologies (Overview and Introduction).
11:45 am	Break
Noon	Session 7: Public Comments.
1:00 pm	Adjournment.