{"id":645,"date":"2017-09-17T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=645"},"modified":"2017-10-28T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:36:34","slug":"cashing-in-on-hope-the-big-business-of-selling-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/cashing-in-on-hope-the-big-business-of-selling-stem-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCashing in on hope: the big business of selling stem cells\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alumni Event &#8211; October 27<sup>th <\/sup>2017<\/h2>\n<p>Guest speaker: <strong>Associate Professor Megan Munsie PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-711 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2017\/09\/Karin-Megan-27.10.17-300x171.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2017\/09\/Karin-Megan-27.10.17-300x171.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2017\/09\/Karin-Megan-27.10.17-768x437.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2017\/09\/Karin-Megan-27.10.17-1024x582.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/files\/2017\/09\/Karin-Megan-27.10.17.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Megan Munsie with Karin Tiedemann at the lunchtime meeting, in the Children&#8217;s Hospital Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cCashing in on hope: the big business of selling stem cells\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Associate Professor Munsie gave a fascinating talk to a group of about 30 Alumni members and partners.<\/p>\n<p>As head of Stem Cells Australia\u2019s Education in the Ethics, Law &amp; Community Awareness Unit, she\u00a0is responsible for promoting public debate and understanding about important scientific, ethical, legal and societal implications arising from stem cell research.<\/p>\n<p>The huge amount of media publicity involving unproven therapies using stem cells and often involving very substantial costs for families and travel to distant destinations \/ countries for treatment was discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of well designed clinical trials or any solid evidence of efficacy was highlighted. Nonetheless there is real promise that such therapies will have a place in the foreseeable future for some conditions.<\/p>\n<p>At the present time much of the media &#8220;hype&#8221; is clearly <strong>&#8220;Fake News&#8221;<\/strong>??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stem Cells&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}