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Lecturer/Position/Organization: Krishna B. Garg/Professor/University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004, India Session/Theme: Science, Ethics and the Ethics of Scientific Research Title of the presentation: Do Globalisation and Modern Scientific Developments Pose New Challenges for the Society! It is perhaps proper to club science and technology together for the sake of discussion even if their internal scope

Demetrio Neri Stem cell science and policies: the Italian debate and legislation in a European perspective. Introductory remarks. My presentation consists of two sections. In the first section I’ll try to answer to the question which is the issue of this session. Perhaps my answer will sound a bit pessimistic, but what happened at the

Lecturer/Position/Organization: Charles H. Baron/Professor/Boston College Law School Session/Theme: Science and Law Title of the presentation: Legal Methodologies for Maximizing Freedom of Scientific Research In the realm of American law, there may be no more quoted statement from a judicial opinion than that of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who observed in a 1932 case:

Tiziano Barberi (PhD, senior scientist in the laboratory of Stem Cell and Tumor Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) Session: Science, Technology and Economy Round table: Open Access to Science Impact of open access in biomedical research Open access to science comes from one of the initiatives of the Open Society Institute (OSI).