In May and June of 1996, the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress and the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program,with partial funding from the Department of Energy, organized a series of seminars on the Human Genome Project (HGP) for Members of Congress and Congressional staff. The purpose of the seminars was to provide information to Congressional policy makers about the scientific progress of the HGP and important social and policy issues.
For more information, please e-mail the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress at congress_center@aaas.org.
"Scientific and Clinical Aspects of the HGP"
David T. Kingsbury
Director, Genome Data Base
Director, Division of Biomedical Information Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University
May 15
"Commerce, Patenting and the HGP"
David J. Galas
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer
Darwin Molecular Corporation, Washington State
(Former Director of Health & Environmental Research, U.S. Department
of Energy)
Kate H. Murashige, Esq.
Partner, Morrison, & Foerster
Washington, DC
June 12
"Privacy, Confidentiality, and Discrimination"
Francis S. Collins
Director, National Center for Human Genome Research
National Institutes of Health
Karen H. Rothenberg
Marjorie Cook Professor of Law
Unversity of Maryland School of Law
Jane Reese-Coulbourne
Executive Vice President, National Breast Cancer Coalition
June 26
"Genetics and Human Behavior"
Jonathan M. Marks
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Theodore Reich
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
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