Carol Tauer is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota and is currently Visiting Professor at the Center for Bioethics. She holds a PhD in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University with a concentration in bioethics. In 1994 she was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel that was charged to make ethical recommendations for federal funding of research on infertility, preimplantation diagnosis, and stem cell research. In 1999 she was a member of the NIH Working Group on Pluripotential Stem Cell Research that developed specific recommendations for federally funded human embryonic stem cell research. |