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The World Stem Cell Hub is setting up an emergency management team following the resignation of cloning pioneer Prof. Hwang Woo-suk as its president last week over an ethics scandal. The hub said on Sunday it would assemble within this week a group of stem cell researchers to fine-tune its operating policies and redraft guidelines and ethics code.
A spokesman at the center said the position of president would remain vacant for the time being. Experts on bioethics will be part of the emergency team.
The World Stem Cell Hub is designed to provide an international center for research. Details on the emergency committee and the progress of international joint research projects will be announced when Hwang collaborator Ahn Cu-rie, a medical professor at SNU, returns from an official trip this week.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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