[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 15186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4389]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on April 
20-21, 2006

AGENCY: The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, 
MD, Chairman) will hold its twenty-fourth meeting, at which, among 
other things, it will hear presentations on and discuss issues in two 
broad areas: (1) Children and clinical research and (2) organ 
procurement and transplantation. Subjects discussed at past Council 
meetings (though not on the agenda for the present one) include: 
Cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, IVF, ICSI, PGD, 
sex selection, inheritable genetic modification, patentability of human 
organisms, neuroscience, aging retardation, and lifespan-extension. 
Publications issued by the Council to date include: Human Cloning and 
Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond Therapy: 
Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); Being Human: 
Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics (December 2003); 
Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 2004), Reproduction and 
Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004), 
Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A White Paper (May 
2005), and Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society 
(September 2005).

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, April 20, 2006, from 9 
a.m. to 5:15 p.m., E.T.; and Friday, April 21, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 
12 noon, E.T.

ADDRESSES: The Madison, 15th and M Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20005. 
Phone 202-862-1600.
    Agenda: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov.
    Public Comments: The Council encourages public input, either in 
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public 
may address the Council, beginning at 11:45 a.m., on Friday, April 21. 
Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director 
of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a public 
statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a written 
statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of the addresses 
given below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20006. Telephone: 202/296-
4669. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

    Dated: March 15, 2006.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
 [FR Doc. E6-4389 Filed 3-24-06; 8:45 am]
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