Medical ethicist and law professor Alta Charo will present an Academy Evening talk Tuesday, October 23, at 7 p.m. Her address, titled "Tales from the Other Biotech Frontier," will be based on her observations of the biotech industry in California that she observed during a year spent teaching at the University of California-Berkeley.
The free presentation, to be held at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art lecture hall, 227 State Street, will include comments on the lessons that Wisconsin can draw from California’s booming biotech industry, and how Wisconsin can keep its edge in an increasingly competitive research climate.
The event is a presentation of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters as part of its Academy Evening series. No tickets are required. Admission is free ($3 suggested donation). Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, with doors opening at 6:15 p.m.
Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the UW-Madison, where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School's Department of Medical History and Bioethics.
She is the author of nearly 100 articles, book chapters and government reports on topics including voting rights, environmental law, family planning and abortion law, medical genetics law, reproductive technology policy, science policy, and research ethics. A fellow of the Wisconsin Academy and a member of the National Academies Institute of Medicine, she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Life Sciences and serves on its committee to develop national voluntary guidelines for stem cell research.
Academy Evenings take place regularly in the Overture Center in Madison and at other venues around Wisconsin. The public forums feature Wisconsin's leading thinkers, scholars and artists. They are intended to encourage public interaction with these leaders in an intimate atmosphere designed to build community.
For more information on the Academy see www.wisconsinacademy.org.
Charo’s presentation is sponsored by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the John and Sally Mielke Family Fund, and a number of individual donors.
Submitted by on October 23, 2007
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