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August 2001: President George W. Bush limits federal research funding to research using a small group of embryonic cell lines in existence at the time.
September 2001: NU Board of Regents votes to follow federal policy on stem cell research.
March 2008: Nebraska Legislature votes 48-0 to approve Legislative Bill 606. The law allows the NU Medical Center to continue stem cell research that meets federal guidelines. Under the law, no NU researcher can destroy human embryos or create cloned embryos for research or reproduction.
March 2009: President Barack Obama approves new guidelines that allow more stem cell lines to be approved for use in federally funded research. The guidelines allow unused embryos from fertility treatments to be used for research but require documentation that the embryos were freely donated and would otherwise be destroyed. More than 100 lines are currently being considered for approval by the National Institutes of Health.
Friday: NU Board of Regents fails to adopt a resolution to restrict research to the Bush guidelines. UNMC Chancellor Harold Maurer said the vote opens the door for additional stem cell research and for the recruitment of more scientists.
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