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National
Undergraduate Bioethics Panelist Biography: Steve Stice
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Dr. Steven Stice has over 14 years
of animal cloning research and business experience. He produced the
first cloned rabbit in 1987 and the first cloned transgenic calves
in 1998 (George and Charlie). This research led to publications in
Science and Nature journals, national news coverage (CBS, NBC, ABC
and CNN) and the first US patents on cloning animals and cattle embryonic
stem cells. Throughout his career he has published and lectured on
cloning and stem cell technologies. Prior to joining the University
of Georgia, Dr. Stice was a cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer
at Advanced Cell Technology, a company developing cloning technology
for production of pharmaceutical proteins and organ transplantation.
Prior to that he managed the cattle cloning project at ABS Global,
a subsidiary of WR Grace (1989-1994). Dr. Stice is a Professor and
has a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar endowed chair in the
Animal and Dairy Science Department at the University of Georgia.
His research focuses on developing innovative animal cloning techniques
and stem cell therapies. He also serves as the Chief Scientific Officer
for ProLinia, Inc having 12 employees. As a founder of the Company,
Dr. Stice directs the Company's cloning and transgenic research. He
is also Vice President for human stem cell research at BresaGen Inc.
BresaGen has four of the human embryonic stem cell lines approved
for NIH funding. He was recently named one of the top forty entrepreneurs
under forty years old in the state of Georgia and received the AGR
grand president’s award for leadership in agriculture.
Dr. Stice received a B.S. in agricultural science at the University
of Illinois in 1983. He then attended Iowa State University and completed
a M.S. degree in 1985. Next, Dr. Stice went to the University of Massachusetts
in Amherst for a Ph.D. program and graduated in 1989. |
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