Sentences with phrase «for human embryonic stem cell research»

It would accommodate evolving and expanding areas of stem cell study, serving as a university and regional hub for human embryonic stem cell research.

Lamberth, who ordered a temporary ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cells research last August that an appeals court later overturned, is expected to issue a final ruling on the matter as soon as this summer.

One of the best talks of this conference was given by Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Professor and Director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Stanford University.

The attempt by two adult stem cell researchers to quash US funding for human embryonic stem cell research reached a critical juncture this morning, as a high - profile appeals court heard key oral arguments in the case.

As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney once advocated for human embryonic stem cell research.

A Washington, D.C., judge said this afternoon that his ruling 2 weeks ago, halting all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, will stand while the case moves forward.

The third and most recent round of grants awarded earlier this year for stem cell research by the state of Minnesota tracks a pattern established with the two earlier rounds of grants: a noticeable lack of support for human embryonic stem cell research.

In the months before Framework 6 was adopted, a coalition of countries threatened to block the entire program over funding for human embryonic stem cell research, which is restricted or even forbidden in some E.U. countries.

«I think this is the best option we have ever had,» says Renee Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education in California, who wasn't involved in the study.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

Among scientists, she may be best known as the defendant on Sherley v. Sebelius, a lawsuit challenging federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research that the government ultimately won.

«We saw better germ - cell differentiation in this transplantation model than we've ever seen,» said Renee Reijo Pera, PhD, former director of Stanford's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education.

Soon after then - President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Committee (NBAC) in 1999 issued a report recommending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) the subject of such funding became one of the nation's most hotly contested public policy issues.

This was the position taken by then President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), the first presidential bioethics panel to recommend federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR).

«It is likely we'll have a key decision from the appeals court on whether Dickey - Wicker allows federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.»