Appendix C. 
Bush Administration NIH Guidelines for 
Embryonic Stem Cell Funding 
Taken from the website of the National Institutes of Health on 
September 26, 2003. 
The text follows. 
NOTICE OF CRITERIA FOR FEDERAL FUNDING OF RESEARCH ON 
EXISTING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND 
ESTABLISHMENT OF NIH HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL 
REGISTRY 
Release Date: November 7, 2001 
NOTICE: NOT-OD-02-005 
Office of the Director, NIH 
On August 9, 2001, at 9:00 p.m. EDT, the President announced his 
decision to allow Federal funds to be used for research on existing 
human embryonic stem cell lines as long as prior to his 
announcement (1) the derivation process (which commences with 
the removal of the inner cell mass from the blastocyst) had already 
been initiated and (2) the embryo from which the stem cell line was 
derived no longer had the possibility of development as a human 
being. 
In addition, the President established the following criteria that must 
be met: 
o The stem cells must have been derived from an embryo that was 
created for reproductive purposes; 
o The embryo was no longer needed for these purposes; 
o Informed consent must have been obtained for the donation of the 
embryo; 
o No financial inducements were provided for donation of the 
embryo. 
In order to facihtate research using human embryonic stem cells, the 
NIH is creating a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry that vshll list 
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