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U.S. Cloning Pioneer Resigns To Accept University Position
Antonio Regalado
Wall Street Journal
November 11, 2002
A U.S. scientist who said he was the first to create human embryos via cloning is leaving the research program behind in order to join the faculty of Michigan State University.
The career move, by Argentine-born researcher Jose B. Cibelli, 39 years old, marks the end of a tumultuous chapter for Advanced Cell Technology Inc., the closely held biotechnology company in Worcester, Mass., whose efforts to create cloned human embryos have been assailed as immoral by the Bush administration.
Michigan State, in East Lansing, Mich., said Friday that Dr. Cibelli had accepted an appointment as a professor of animal biotechnology.
Due to a Michigan law that outlaws human-cloning research, Dr. Cibelli won't be able to continue his studies of human embryos at the school. "He's not going to be doing anything that goes against the state legislature, the president or the National Institutes of Health," said Lonnie King, dean of Michigan State's College of Veterinary Medicine.
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