• Advancing the Promise
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  IASCR has compiled comments on the NIH Draft Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research. Advancing the Promise: Leading Research Institutions, Patients and Scholars Comment on the Draft NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research is available as both a PowerPoint presentation (3.8 MB) and PDF file (4.0 MB).

• State Research Policy Analysis
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  An analysis, performed under the auspices of IASCR, intended to evaluate how policy differences may affect the sharing of research materials and other collaborative work has been published in Medical Research Law & Policy Report. More...

IASCR Meeting (Agenda)
September 9-10, 2008
Columbus Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Baltimore, MD



Participant Updates

• California/CIRM
• Connecticut
• Illinois
• Massachusetts
• New Jersey
• New York
• Rhode Island (see also Cord Blood Act and Cord Bloom Commission)
• Wisconsin
• The National Academies
• International Society for Stem Cell Research
• Canada
• United Kingdom

Speaker Presentations

• Barbara Collura: "RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association: Patient support, information and advocacy for 34 years"
• John Gearhart: "Chimeras"
• Rosario Isasi: "Stem Cell Banking"
• Margaret E. Swain: "Informed Consent"

Other Resources

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary