He receives no compensation for this appointment. He is one of more than 1,400 volunteer faculty members in the UNMC College of Medicine. In this capacity, Dr. Carhart sees no patients and is not involved in teaching students. He receives no medical staff privileges from UNMC or its partner, Nebraska Health System. FACT UNMC is following federal guidelines and is using a proper consent form.
Women consent to donate fetal cells only after they have made the decision to have an abortion.
They receive no financial benefit. This research change was widely reported in the media. The National Institutes of Health encouraged UNMC to explore this new exciting field of scientific questioning and funded UNMC s initiatives. FACT Federal law does not require institutions to review fetal cell research that does not involve patients. However, understanding the sensitivity of this research, UNMC scientists using neural fetal cells in laboratory or mouse research requested a review of this research.