What is the Working Group on Criteria for Cell-Based Therapies?
The Working Group on Criteria for Cell-Based Therapies was created by the Johns Hopkins University Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy(PCEEPP), with a grant from the Greenwall Foundation, to evaluate the “next generation” of ethical issues likely to face research with human embryonic stem cells. The panel of experts in science, ethics and law focused on issues of safety — for future participants in clinical research with the cells or their derivatives — and justice — or how make access to clinical trials and, once those are complete, therapies using the cells as fair and equitable as possible. The working group completed their project and is publishing their conclusions in two papers in November 2003.
