The Sixth Annual Activated Egg Symposium was held on Friday, Nov. 9, 2007

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The 2007 keynote speaker was Ian Wilmut, PhD, Professor of Reproductive Science at the University of Edinburgh

Professor Wilmut’s research achievements are many, but he is most widely known as the leader of the team that produced Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult animal.

He was recently awarded the prestigious 2005 Paul Ehrlich prize, Germany’s top medical research award. He now aims to bring skills in nuclear transfer to bear on new approaches towards human diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

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The Dinner Speaker was Robert Truog, MD, a member of the Foundation's Ethical Advisory Committee and the Director of Clinical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, as well as, a Professor of Anesthesia, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School.

Other presenters for the November 9 Symposium include:

• Jose B. Cibelli, DVM, Professor, Animal Biotechnology. Michigan State University, and a member of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation's Board of Directors with a talk titled: "Inter-Species Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer";
• Dieter Egli, PhD, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, and recent HSCI Seed Grant recipient, with a talk titled: "Developmental reprogramming after chromosome transfer into mitotic mouse zygotes"
• Jeffrey Janus, PhD , President of International Stem Cell Corporation will present a talk titled: "Patient-Specific Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Parthenogenetic Blastocysts"
  
• Barbara Knowles, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine with a talk titled: "Cracking the Egg";
• Steven D. Sheridan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist / Manager, Stem Cells / Cell Biology, Applications and Technology Development, Millipore Corporation, BioSciences Division, with a talk titled: "Alternate Surfaces for Embryonic Stem Cell Expansion and Differentiation";
• Steven L. Stice, Ph.D., GRA Eminent Scholar and Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center, Edgar L. Rhodes Center for ADS, Univ. of Georgia with a talk titled: "Human ESC differentiation toward neural and vascular networks."

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