Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey has named Harold T. Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University, the chairman of a newly established ethics-advisory panel on stem-cell research.
Gov. Codey announced the appointment during a national symposium on the policy and economic implications of state-sponsored stem cell-research held earlier this month on campus. In his address, the acting governor outlined his vision for awarding and funding stem-cell research grants. The ethics-advisory panel is intended to ensure that state-funded research will comply with state guidelines.
Professor Shapiro, who served as chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission from 1996 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton, now is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton. He was the university’s president from 1988 to 2001.
"States and Stem Cells: A Symposium on the Policy and Economic Implications of State-Sponsored Stem Cell Research" was sponsored by the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and its Policy Research Institute for the Region, along with the New York Academy of Science.

