Schedule

8:45 a.m. Registration
9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

  • Ken Tindall, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Science and Business Development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
  • Karen Hoffman, President, NCABR.
  • Bill Leinweber, Vice President, Research!America.
9:25 a.m.

Panel I

  • Remarks and Introductions
    Panel Moderator: Tom Linden, M.D., Director, Medical Journalism Program; GlaxoWellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
  • The History of Cloning: Fact & Fiction
    Kent E. Vrana, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
  • Therapeutic vs. Reproductive Cloning
    Randy L. Jirtle, Ph.D., Director, Division of Radiation and Molecular Oncology Research; Professor of Radiation Oncology; Associate Professor of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center.
  • Audience Discussion
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m.

Panel II

  • Introductions
    Panel Moderator: Tom Linden, M.D.
  • Reproductive Cloning in Animals
    John Vandenbergh, Ph.D., Chairman, National Academy of Science Committee on "Defining Science-Based Concerns Associated with the Products of Animal Biotechnology;" Professor, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University.
  • Ethical and Social Consideration about Cloning
    Larry Churchill, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
  • Audience Discussion
11:50 a.m.

Closing Remarks
John F. Burness, Senior Vice President, Public and Government Relations, Duke University.

Noon

Adjourn


 
 
 
With special support from
North Carolina Biotechnology Center