R. Alta Charo, JD, is the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her areas of expertise include policy, regulation, and funding related to genetics, stem cell research, reproductive technologies, and human subjects research. She has authored or contributed to over 150 articles, book chapters, and government reports and has consulted on gene therapy and genome editing in medical and environmental applications for various pharmaceutical, gene therapy, xenotransplant, infertility therapy, and conservation genetics companies.
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R. Alta Charo, JD
R. Alta Charo, JD
Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison

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