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Posted 11/25/01
Ronald M. Green, Director of the Dartmouth College Ethics Institute, chaired the ethical review board for the cloning research at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass. He said "once we get stem cells from cloned human activated eggs, ethicists will need to determine when it's safe to try to transplant such cells back into volunteer donors."
Green will comment on the ethical review process and about the ethical implications surrounding the use of donor eggs and the difference between reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning.
Interviews can be arranged through Dartmouth's Office of Public Affairs at (603) 646-3661.
Background information:
A member of Dartmouth's Religion Department since 1969, Professor Green directs Dartmouth's Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. He has special expertise in the ethical issues surrounding human cloning and stem cell research. He currently heads the Ethics Advisory Board of Advanced Cell Technology, a Massachusetts company engaged in therapeutic cloning research.
His most recent book, The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy, was published this spring by Oxford University Press. His other books include Religion and Moral Reason (Oxford, 1988) and The Ethical Manager (Macmillan, 1994). In 1994 he served as a member of the National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and collaborated in the writing of the Panel's Report providing guidelines for all future federally funded research on the human embryo. From February 1996 through June of 1997, he served as a consultant to the NIH's National Institute for Human Genome Research, where he aided in the establishment the Office of Genome Ethics.
Professor Green was president of the Society of Christian Ethics (1998-1999), and has served as the Secretary of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional association of religion educators in higher education. He is a member of the Society of Business Ethics, and of the Bioethics Committee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and The Business Ethics Quarterly. He is a graduate of Brown University and received his religious ethics doctorate from Harvard University in 1973.
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