News Briefing and Senate committee hearing on stem cell research June 23rd

[Linda J Herman <ljherman1@xxxxxxxx>]

  FROM:
The Washington Daybook

June 23, 2004

ORGANIZATION: The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
(CAMR) holds a news briefing to ask the President to lift the current
restrictions placed on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

TIME: 10:15 a.m.

LOCATION: June 23, 2004

CONTACT: Julie Kimbrough, 212-585-3501 or 646-734-6091; e-mail,
juliekimbrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or Sean Tipton, 202-863-2492 or
202-421-5112; e-mail, stipton@xxxxxxxxxxx

PARTICIPANTS: Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del.; Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo.;
Daphne Thomas, physician; Svati Narula, child with type one diabetes;
Robert Klein II, spinal cord injured four years ago; Michelle Lane,
Parkinsons patient and Karen Schork, infertility patient

TYPE: News briefing

AND:

The Washington Daybook

June 23, 2004

ORGANIZATION: Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

COMMITTEE: Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

SUB-COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee

EVENT: Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee hearing on stem cell
research.

TIME: 11 a.m.

LOCATION: 253 Russell Senate Office Building

CONTACT: 202-224-1251 

PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Michel Levesque, Jean Peduzzi-Nelson, Department of
Physiological Optics, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Dr. Irving
Weissman, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Laura Dominguez and Susan Fajt, private citizens; Peter Van
Etten, president/CEO, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

TYPE: Hearing

SUBJECT: Adult Stem Cell Research

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