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The Stem Cell Research Environment: A Patchwork of Patchworks |
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| Authors: | Timothy Caulfield Amy Zarzeczny Jennifer McCormick Tania Bubela Christine Critchley Edna Einsiedel Jacques Galipeau Shawn Harmon Michael Huynh Insoo Hyun Judy Illes Rosario Isasi Yann Joly Graeme Laurie Geoff Lomax Holly Longstaff Michael McDonald Charles Murdoch Ubaka Ogbogu Jason Owen-Smith Shaun Pattinson Shainur Premji Barbara von Tigerstrom David E. Winickoff | ||
| Affiliation: | 1. Health Law Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2. Department of Medicine, Program in Professionalism and Bioethics, Mayo Clinic and College of Medicine, Rochester, USA 3. Health Law Institute, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 4. Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia 5. Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 6. Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 7. ESRC InnoGen and AHRC SCRIPT, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 8. McGill University, Montreal, Canada 9. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA 10. National Core for Neuroethics, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 11. Centre de recherche en droit public, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada 12. School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 13. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, USA 14. The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 16. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 15. Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 17. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 18. Department of Law, Durham University, Durham, UK 19. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 20. College of Law and School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada 21. University of California, Berkeley, USA |
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| Abstract: | Few areas of recent research have received as much focus or generated as much excitement and debate as stem cell research. Hope for the therapeutic promise of this field has been matched by social concern associated largely with the sources of stem cells and their uses. This interplay between promise and controversy has contributed to the enormous variation that exists among the environments in which stem cell research is conducted throughout the world. This variation is layered upon intra-jurisdictional policies that are also often complex and in flux, resulting in what we term a ‘patchwork of patchworks’. This patchwork of patchworks and its implications will become increasingly important as we enter this new era of stem cell research. The current progression towards translational and clinical research among international collaborators serves as a catalyst for identifying potential policy conflict and makes it imperative to address jurisdictional variability in stem cell research environments. The existing patchworks seen in contemporary stem cell research environments provide a valuable opportunity to consider how variations in regulations and policies across and within jurisdictions influence research efficiencies and directions. In one sense, the stem cell research context can be viewed as a living experiment occurring across the globe. The lessons to be gleaned from examining this field have great potential for broad-ranging general science policy application.
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| Keywords: | Stem cell research Policy Regulation International Collaboration Harmonization | ||
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