Stem-Cell Research Experts Available for Interviews

Business Wire, July 12, 2001

News/Assignment Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2001

The following experts from Santa Clara University are available to comment on the scientific, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the timely stem-cell research debate:

Scientific and ethical viewpoint:

Margaret R. McLean

Director of Biotechnology and Healthcare Ethics

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Holding a doctorate in clinical pathology from the Medical College of Wisconsin and a M.Div. from Luther Seminary, McLean has a second doctoral degree in ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is director of the Applied Ethics Center at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, a member of the Bioethics Committee at O'Connor Hospital, and review committee member on Infant Bioethics and Infant Care at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. McLean also serves as a consultant to The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.

Her professional and research interests include the ethical dimensions of biotechnology especially human reproductive technology, medical and agricultural applications of genetic technology, stem cell technology, neonatology, and end of life decisions.

Current projects include participation on the California State Advisory Committee on Human Cloning, a chapter in "The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate" to be published by MIT Press and a manuscript on genetic selection.

Legal viewpoint:

June Carbone

Professor, SCU School of Law

In addition to being a professor of law at SCU, Carbone is the presidential professor of Ethics and the Common Good, and associate dean for Professional Development at SCU. She received her J.D. from the Yale Law School, and her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She teaches property, family law, and contemporary legal theory. Carbone is the author of the book From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law, published by Columbia University Press this year.

For interviews, contact Kelly Shenefiel in Media Relations at 408/554-5125 or kshenefiel@scu.edu.