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The Heinz and Virginia Herrmann The First Annual Heinz and Virginia Herrmann Distinguished Lecture 2006
"Human Dignity - Trump Card and Troublemaker". Wednesday October 18, 2006. Dr. Karen Lebacqz is Emeritus Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics at the Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California where she served on the faculty for over 30 years. Dr. Lebacqz is internationally known for her writings on theories of justice, bioethics, feminist ethics, sexual ethics, professional ethics, and ethical theory. Her work in bioethics has focused on issues of genetics, the human genome project, and most recently on stem cell research. She received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, and for the 2005-2006 academic year she was the Bioethicist-in-Residence at Yale. Dr. Lebacqz was a commissioner
on the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical
and Behavioral Research and co-author
of the Belmont Report (1979) which set the ethical principles and guidelines
for the protection of human subjects in research. She has served as a
consultant
as a consultant in bioethics to the California Department of Health and
on the Ethics Advisory Board of the Geron Corporation that pioneered
in stem cell research. About the Series The Heinz and Virginia Herrmann Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights and the Life Sciences was established through a generous gift from Heinz and Virginia Herrmann. The lecture series represents Heinz’s and Virginia’s long-term commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration between the life sciences and the humanities and to the value of informed public discourse about the ethical and social dimensions of scientific inquiry. Heinz Herrmann was the Maude K. Irving American Cancer Society Professor of Biology from 1960 – 1980 and Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs from 1959- 1979. Dr. Herrmann received his M.D. degree from the University of Vienna Medical School in 1936 with a focus on biochemistry. Prior to accepting his appointment at the University of Connecticut Dr. Herrmann held positions at the Carlsberg Laboratories in Copenhagen, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Yale University, and the University of Colorado Medical School where he established the noted Laboratory of Chemical Embryology. His scientific career has been devoted to understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of embryological development. Virginia Herrmann was Adjunct Professor of Organ in the School of Music at the University of Connecticut, and held the position of Director of Music at St. Marks Episcopal Chapel, Storrs from 1960-2000. She received her Bachelor and MFA degrees from Indiana University, and later studied organ at Yale University. Dr. Heinz Hermann is the author of over one hundred journal articles and one hundred fifty technical reports. He was awarded a NATO visiting professorship at the University of Milan in 1971. In addition to his scientific papers Dr. Herrmann has published on the philosophy of science and the history of medicine. After he retiring from his faculty position at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Herrmann published two books: Cell Biology: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Living State (HarperCollins, 1989), and From Biology to Sociopolitics: Conceptual Continuity in Complex Systems (Yale University Press, 1998). Dr. Herrmann, along with four other distinguished researchers, founded the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). To honor his achievements, the ASCB presents the Dr. Heinz Herrmann Symposium every year at its annual meeting.
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