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Appendix C: Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 47-54

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From page 47...
... Professor Charo is the author of nearly 100 articles, book chapters, and government reports on such topics as voting rights, environmental law, family planning and abortion law, medical genetics law, reproductive technology policy, science policy, and medical ethics. Professor Charo is a member of the boards of the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Foundation for Genetic Medicine, a member of the National Medical Advisory Committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and a member of the ethics advisory boards of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and WiCell.
From page 48...
... Ludwig Professor for Cancer Re search at the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology at MIT and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
From page 49...
... Her laboratory developed methods for deriving mouse pluripotential embryonic germ cell lines. She was cochair for science of the 1994 National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and a member of the 2001-2002 National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning.
From page 50...
... Ms. Miller serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Louisville–based Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, headed by Suzanne Ildstad, which does research in adult bone marrow transplanta tion, and has been a member of several academic and health-care institu tions' boards of governors, including those of Blythedale Children's Hospital in New York, Capital Hospice in the national capital region, and Cornell University's Alumni Council.
From page 51...
... He is also a bioethics adviser for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a fellow of the Hastings Center. During 19951996, he was senior policy and research analyst for the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments; and during 1998-2000, he was a senior consultant for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
From page 52...
... Finnegan Family Director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. He was previously Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiol ogy at the Washington University School of Medicine.
From page 53...
... Sloan Foundation, is presiding director for the Dow Chemical Company, and is a member of numerous boards, including the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, HCA, the Merck Vaccine Advisory Board, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
From page 54...
... He cochairs the Graft Sources and Manipulation Working Committee of the Center for Inter national Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) , serves on the Scientific Board of Directors of the National Marrow Donor Program, and is a member of the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.


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