Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Insoo Hyun is Director of Research Ethics and a faculty member of the Center for Bioethics and senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. As a Fulbright Scholar and Hastings Center Fellow, Dr. Hyun's interests include ethical and policy issues in stem cell research and new biotechnologies.
Dr. Hyun has been involved for many years with the ISSCR (International Society for Stem Cell Research). He has helped draft all of the ISSCR’s international research guidelines and is the current Chair of the ISSCR Ethics Committee.
Dr. Hyun received his BA and MA in Philosophy with Honors in Ethics in Society from Stanford University and his PhD in Philosophy from Brown University. He has been interviewed frequently on National Public Radio and has served on national commissions for the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. Dr. Hyun is a regular contributor to Nature, Science, Cell Stem Cell, The Hastings Center Report, among many other journals.
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D09 - New Guidelines for Human Stem Cell-Related Research—Implications for IRBs and Institutions
Thursday, November 18, 2021
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET