Wilson leaves UPenn's gene therapy institute
Director oversaw experiment that led to death of 18-year-old patient in 1999.
Apr 22, 2002
MADISON, WISCONSIN — James M. Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, will leave his post effective 1 July 2002, and return to research at the university. The resignation, first reported on Saturday by the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Dean Arthur H. Rubenstein, who announced Wilson's resignation in an e-mail to faculty on Friday, was traveling Monday and could not be reached for comment.
LeRoy Walters, a professor of bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, told