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...Both the mission and vision of the task force, Dean [of the College Benedict H.] Gross [’71] and Provost Steven E. Hyman is to try to get all of the services that are available to students working together collegially to make sure that you get what you need at the right time,” Barreira said...
With scientists in South Korea successfully extracting stem cells from a cloned human embryo last month, Harvard has vowed not to fall behind. Just last week, Provost Steven E. Hyman confirmed pre-existing plans to spend several million dollars creating a new center for stem cell research. Upon hearing about the Korean advance in February, the center’s co-director David T. Scadden had remarked, “It’s a terrible disappointment that we’re reading about it from other countries. It’s imperative that we be able to use this...
...federal grants are limited to pre-existing stem cell lines: Considerable debate and controversy surrounds such research. Harvard’s leadership role as a research institution demands it pay attention to this controversy. In one of the most critical evaluations of stem cell research at Harvard so far, Hyman proclaimed, “It’s something Harvard ought to be doing. It is something we can be preeminent in.” Whether Harvard ought to be cloning human embryos, however, is an issue quite different from whether it can be expert in doing it. Scientists...
University Provost Steven E. Hyman said that while the original intention was for half of the members to come from MIT and half from Harvard, this might not be the end result...
...foreseeing that a lot of the interesting collaboration is between genomics and medicine,” Hyman said. “It may be that we underestimated the number of hospital-based faculty who would profit from [the collaborations] and who have training, time and interest...