DETROIT-Lance Gable, Wayne State University's School of Law professor, will join a three-member panel that will participate in the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (ESCRO) Workshop during the 2010 World Stem Cell Summit, which will run Oct. 4-6 at the Marriott Renaissance Center in Detroit.

One of the highly anticipated focus sessions during Monday, Oct. 4, the ESCRO Workshop will take place at 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Duluth Room on the fifth floor of the Renaissance Center. The purpose of the ESCRO committee is to manage the ethical and legal concerns involved with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

Gable is chair of the Wayne State University Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Workgroup and co-chair of the Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. He has helped develop course materials for the World Health Organization Diploma in International Human Rights and Mental Health and has worked as a human rights consultant for the Pan American Health Organization.

Gable teaches public health law, bioethics and the law, torts, and other health law subjects at Wayne State's Law School. He is also a scholar with the Centers for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more information about the 2010 World Stem Cell Summit, visit www.worldstemcellsummit.com.

Wayne State University is a premier urban research university offering more than 400 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.