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Reflections on Governance Models for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jeremy Sugarman
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Acentral promise of human embryonic stem cell research is the potential to develop viable therapeutic approaches to a range of devastating diseases and conditions. Despite excitement over such advances, there are scientific and medical reasons to be cautious as stem cells and their products are introduced into patients. In response to such concerns, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) as well as ad hoc groups and individuals have offered approaches to governance of this research. While there are similarities among these governance models and they are in principle easily endorsable, in this paper I raise a set of concerns related to their implementation, suggesting areas where gathering data may facilitate more appropriate oversight. Next, I suggest areas that seem to have been neglected as these governance models have been developed so that they may be on the agendas of those seeking to revise these models in the future. Finally, I describe how some of the concerns that have arisen in considering the appropriate governance of stem cell research may be useful in science and translational research more broadly.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , Summer 2010 , pp. 251 - 256
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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