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The Reality of Human Reproductive Medicine & the Promise of Stem Cell Therapies

Dr. Gerald Schatten is Director of the Pittsburgh Development Center, Deputy Director of the Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), and serves as the Vice Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences as well as Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.  Prior to founding the PDC, Dr. Schatten was Research Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cell and Developmental Biology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland , Oregon .  He was also a senior scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center . He received his bachelor and doctoral degrees at the University of California , Berkeley .

Dr. Schatten is the only American on the executive committee of UNESCO’s International Cell Research Organization.  Along with extensive funding from the National Institutes of Health, he is the recipient of a MERIT award, and was recently honored by the Czech Academy of Sciences with the Purkinje Medal. He has authored and co-authored more than 225 papers on fertilization, cell biology, development, infertility, and assisted reproductive technologies.  He has testified to the US Senate and the President’s Council on Bioethics about the implications of this type of research.

He spoke to an audience of 300 people on September 4, 2003, Amy Cralle Theater

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