Professor Loane Skene

 

Professor Peter Rathjen

Duration: 27 min 00 sec
Format: MP3

Our guests for this episode are:

Professor Loane Skene, President of the Academic Board of the University of Melbourne, a member of the Council of the University, and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University

Professor Peter Rathjen, Dean of Science

"... the possibility of generating cell populations that we could transplant to try and cure diseases that are caused by the dysfunction or the loss or the damage of unique cell populations within the body" - Professor Peter Rathjen

Update

As this podcast "goes to air", a bill to legalise human embryonic stem cell research has been passed in the Australian Senate, the upper house of the national parliament. Based in part on recommendations of the Lockhart committee, this bill now moves to the House of Representatives.

Useful links

Lockhart Review Committee website

Australian Stem Cell Centre website

Professor Loane Skene

Recent Publications

Law and Medical Practice - Rights, Duties, Claims and Defences, 2nd edtion, 2004
Publisher: Butterworths
ISBN: 0409318795

Buy from Melbourne University Bookshop

Arguments against people "owning" their own bodies, body parts and tissue, Skene,L., 2002, Maquarie Law Journal (2002) Vol 2.

Professor Skene's interview on ABC's Sunday Profile

Melbourne School of Law website

Professor Peter Rathjen

Recent Publications

Vassilieva, S., Shandala, T., Rathjen, J. and Rathjen, P. D. TGFb family is involved in differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells towards mesoderm. International Society for Developmental Biology Conference, Sydney, 2005.

Robinson, A. J., Rathjen, J., Rathjen, P. D., Hutchinson, R. G., Eyre, H. J., Hemsley, K. M. and Hopwood, J. J. Embryonic stem cell-derived glial progenitor cells as a vehicle for sulphaminidase production in the MPS-IIIA mouse brain. Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Venice 2006.

Faculty of Science website

Credits

Host: Jacky Angus
Producers: Kelvin Param and Eric Van Bemmel
Audio Engineer: Craig McArthur
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi

Series Creators: Eric Van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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