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SUMMARY:When is an embryo not an embryo? - Dr Anne McLaren\,  Wellcome Tru
 st/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
DTSTART:20060516T183000Z
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CONTACT:Rebecca Arkell
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anne McLaren will be speaking on the issues surrounding ste
 m cells and cloning.\nDr McLaren (DBE\, DPhil\, FRS\, FRCOG) is one of the
  world's foremost developmental biologists\; a leader in elucidating the p
 rinciples of early mammalian development whose research has underpinned ad
 vances in reproductive medicine and the treatment of infertility. She is c
 urrently a Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon In
 stitute in Cambridge. Dr McLaren played a pivotal role in the creation of 
 the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She chaired the Scien
 tific and Technical Advisory Group of WHO's Human Reproduction Programme a
 nd is a member of the European Group on Ethics that advises the European C
 ommission on social and ethical implications of new technologies. In 2002\
 , she was awarded (jointly with A. K. Tarkowski) the Japan Prize for Devel
 opmental Biology.
LOCATION:Lounge\, The Graduate Union
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