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WHYY and ITVS Community Cinema present an advanced screening and panel conversation of Mapping Stem Cell Research. Mapping Stem Cell Research brings the stem cell debate to the forefront and examines the constantly evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries, the controversy of modern science, and the courage of people living with devastating disease and injury.
Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH brings the stem cell debate to the forefront and examines the constantly evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries,the controversy of modern science and the courage of people living with devastating disease and injury.
Discussion afterwards w/ Film Subject Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia; Paul Root Wolpe, Senior Faculty Associate at the Center for Bioethics-University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Maria McCullough, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer/Medical Reporter.
RSVP Requested. For questions, contact: cindy_burstein@itvs.org or 267-259-205.
When: December 19,2007 from 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
RSVP by: December 13, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Location:
WHYY Technology Center
150 North Sixth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
More info:
FREE! Open to the public
$1 Parking after 5pm at the AutoPark on 6th between Arch & Market.
Doors Open at 5:30, light refreshments served.
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