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NPR Friday, Aug. 22, 2003 Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease (Listen to this story - requires Real Player or Windows Media Player) This week, the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease began. We'll talk about this experimental treatment. Guests: Michael Kaplitt, M.D., Ph.D. * Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College * Director, Center for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York Theodore Friedmann, M.D. *Chair, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), National Institutes of Health Professor, Pediatrics * Muriel Jeannette Whitehill Chair in Biomedical Ethics * Director, Program in Human Gene Therapy University of California San Diego, San Diego, California » E-mail this audio link (Click HERE to listen) http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1405853 NPR Tapes and Transcripts http://www.npr.org/transcripts/index.html?top SOURCE: NPR Programs http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=22-Aug-2003&prgId=5 * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn