Walters
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LeRoy Walters, the Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Professor of Christian ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, will present the IU Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions’ third annual Sims Memorial Lecture Thursday, March 11, at 4 p.m. in Room 150 of the Student Building, IUB.
His topic will be “Five Policy Options for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An International Perspective.”
Walters has served three terms on the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, which he chaired from 1993-1996. He is co-editor with Julie Gage Palmer of The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor with Tom Beauchamp of an anthology, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (Sixth edition, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2003). Since 1976, he has been engaged with the ethical and public policy questions surrounding research about recombinant DNA and human gene transfer.
While on campus, Walters will be meeting with Honors College students for a discussion lunch. They will talk about issues surrounding genetic intervention, genetic engineering and gene therapy research.
Walters, who also is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown, also has served as a consultant on stem cell research to President George W. Bush and to the National Bioethics Advisory Committee.
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