Embryonic Stem Cells: Everything You Want To Know But Are Afraid To Ask

This event is free and open to the public. Reception is at 6:30, talk at 7:00. Susan Fisher, Ph.D, is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She is jointly appointed in the Department of Anatomy. Dr. Fisher is also the Director of the UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program and Faculty Director of the Sandler-Moore Mass Spectrometry Facility. The Fisher group studies the role that the human placenta plays in normal pregnancy and in pregnancy complications. Dr. Fisher has trained numerous UCSF medical students, graduate students, postdoctoral feloows and clinical fellows. Her work has been continuously supported by the National Institute of Health for over 30 years.