FINAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES’ HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND 2010 AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES’ GUIDELINES FOR HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
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Cover: A cluster of motor neurons and neural fibers derived from human embryonic stem cells in the lab of University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher and neurodevelopmental biologist Su-Chan Zhang. These motor neurons were developed from one of James Thomson’s original human embryonic stem cell lines. Copyright for the photograph is held by the University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents.
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HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE
R. ALTA CHARO (Co-chair),
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI1
RICHARD O. HYNES (Co-chair),
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
ELI Y. ADASHI,
Brown University, Providence, RI
BRIGID L.M. HOGAN,
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
MARCIA IMBRESCIA,
Peartree Design, Lynnfield, MA
TERRY MAGNUSON,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
LINDA B. MILLER,
Volunteer Trustees Foundation, Washington, DC
JONATHAN D. MORENO,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
PILAR N. OSSORIO,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
E. ALBERT REECE,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
JOSHUA R. SANES,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
HAROLD T. SHAPIRO,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
JOHN E. WAGNER, Jr.,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Staff
ADAM P. FAGEN, Senior Program Officer,
Board on Life Sciences
BRUCE M. ALTEVOGT, Senior Program Officer,
Board on Health Sciences Policy
FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director,
Board on Life Sciences
ANDREW M. POPE, Director,
Board on Health Sciences Policy
AMANDA P. CLINE, Senior Program Assistant,
Board on Life Sciences
BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES
KEITH YAMAMOTO (Chair),
University of California, San Francisco, CA
ANN M. ARVIN,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
BONNIE L. BASSLER,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
VICKI L. CHANDLER,
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA
SEAN EDDY,
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA
MARK D. FITZSIMMONS,
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
DAVID R. FRANZ,
Midwest Research Institute, Frederick, MD
LOUIS J. GROSS,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
JO HANDELSMAN,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
CATO T. LAURENCIN,
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
JONATHAN D. MORENO,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
ROBERT M. NEREM,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
CAMILLE PARMESAN,
University of Texas, Austin, TX
MURIEL E. POSTON,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
ALISON G. POWER,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
BRUCE W. STILLMAN,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
CYNTHIA WOLBERGER,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
MARY WOOLLEY,
Research!America, Alexandria, VA
Staff
FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director
JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director
KATHERINE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer
ADAM P. FAGEN, Senior Program Officer
MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer
INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Program Officer
ANNA FARRAR, Financial Associate
CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Senior Program Assistant
AMANDA P. CLINE, Senior Program Assistant
AMANDA MAZZAWI, Program Assistant
BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY
JAMES F. CHILDRESS (Chair),
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
ELI Y. ADASHI,
Brown University, Providence, RI
DONALD S. BURKE,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
C. THOMAS CASKEY,
The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, Houston, TX
DENNIS W. CHOI,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
KATHLEEN A. DRACUP,
University of California, San Francisco, CA
FRED H. GAGE,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
LINDA C. GIUDICE,
University of California, San Francisco
LEWIS R. GOLDFRANK,
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
PAUL E. JARRIS,
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Arlington, VA
RICHARD C. LARSON,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
ALAN I. LESHNER,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
LINDA B. MILLER,
Volunteer Trustees Foundation, Washington, DC
STEVEN M. PAUL,
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN
REED V. TUCKSON,
UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN
RAJEEV VENKAYYA,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
KEITH WAILOO,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
CLYDE W. YANCY,
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Staff
ANDREW M. POPE, Director
AMY K.H. PACKMAN, Administrative Assistant
DONNA RANDALL, Financial Officer
Acknowledgments
The Committee acknowledges the input received from members of the stem cell research and oversight communities and the speakers and participants in its meetings.
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
George Q. Daley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School
Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Diego
Bernard Lo, University of California, San Francisco
Geoffrey Lomax, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Gail R. Martin, University of California, San Francisco
P. Pearl O’Rourke, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., and Harvard Medical School
Steven Peckman, University of California, Los Angeles
Janet D. Rowley, University of Chicago
Huda Y. Zoghbi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Baylor College of Medicine
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Floyd E. Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.