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    You have to look at what happened in the last six months…. 1.4 million people have come down with the very diseases that might be helped by stem cell research:
    * 700,000 were diagnosed with cancer;
    * 30,000 with Parkinson’s Disease, including my son-in-law;
    * 5,500 Americans with spinal cord injuries; and
    * 750,000 adults with diabetes.

    That’s 1.4 million more people that might be helped, but can’t be helped. So we all know the time has come.     — Senator Dianne Feinstein, Congress : Senator Dianne Feinstein

  • Orrin Hatch

    Read a moving account of Senator Hatch’s long and inspiring search concerning his decision to support stem cell research from his book, Square Peg.

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TAMR Science committee

Co-chairs

William Brinkley, Ph.D.,
Baylor College of Medicine
  • Senior Vice President for Graduate Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas
  • Co-Director, W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas
  • Past President of the American Society for Cell Biology Past President of the International Federation for Cell Biology
  • Past President of The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) – the nation’s largest organization of biomedical scientists, consisting of 60,000 members, and National Spokesperson for U.S. science policy and issues affecting biomedical research in America
  • Member, Board of Directors, Research!America Past President, Campaign for Medical Research (National Institutes of Heath Funding)

Bettie Sue Masters, Ph.D., D.Sc., M.D. (Hon.)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • President, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-2002-2004
  • Elected Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies-1996–
  • Member, Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health-2000-2004
  • The Robert A. Welch Foundation Distinguished Professor in Chemistry, The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio-1990–
  • Women’s Leadership Council of San Antonio-2001-
  • Member, Advisory Council to the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health-2004-2008

Members

Larry A. Denner, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  • Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  • Associate Director of Research, Stark Diabetes Center
  • Director, McCoy Diabetes Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
  • Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Ralph Dittman, MD, MPH, MCSE Surgeon

  • Surgeon Author and Playwright

Peter J. Hornsby, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center

  • Professor Department of Physiology
  • Cross-Appointed, Department of Surgery
  • Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies University of Texas Health Science Center

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • Professor, Department of Cellular and structural Biology,

Joan Nichols Ph.D.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and The Departments of Anesthesiology and Microbiology & Immunology
  • Assistant Director, Laboratory of Regenerative and Nano-Medicine
  • Director, AIDS Clinical Trials Support Laboratory
  • Director, Infectious Diseases Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory

Luis Parada, Ph.D
University of Texas Southwestern

  • Chairman, Department of Developmental Biology
  • Diana and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology
  • Director, Kent Waldrep Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration
  • Southwestern Ball Distinguished Chair in Basic Neuroscience Research
  • American Cancer Society Research Professor

William C. Rainey, M.D. FACS

  • Co-director, Texans to Cure Paralysis

Paul Simmons, Ph.D
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

  • Institute of Molecular Medicine
  • Professor and Director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine.
  • Past President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)


 The members of the TAMR Board, Advisory Board and committees serve as individuals. Their credentials are listed only to demonstrate the members’ areas of expertise.