title: Ethical and policy issues in the clinical translation of stem cells: report of a focus session at the ISSCR Tenth Annual Meeting.
abstract: Alongside the scientific barriers to the clinical translation of stem cell research are ethical and regulatory hurdles. Some of these challenges described by the Ethics and Public Policy Committee at the ISSCR Tenth Annual Meeting are presented here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan. katok@eth.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kazuto
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kimmelman
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sipp
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sugarman
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics; D003144:Communication Barriers; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D057905:Stem Cell Research / Q000941:ethics*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000941:ethics*