July 15, 2010 — The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has elected Margaret Conn Himelfarb as chair and Bowen P. Weisheit, Jr. as vice chair. Himelfarb is an editor and medical research advocate. She currently sits on the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Institutional Review Board and Health Advisory Board and is a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Institutional Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. She has served on the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) International Board as well as various advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Weisheit is a board member of the Maryland Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and a lawyer with the Law Office of Bowen Weisheit, Jr. He has been a member of the Commission since its inception. Established as an independent unit within the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has set up criteria, standards and requirements to administer the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund in accordance with the Maryland Stem Cell Research Act of 2006.
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