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    2011

  1. Research and development of medical products: opportunities and challenges
  2. Statement on water and health
  3. Statement on mental health policy issues
  4. Academy response to Royal Society consultation on 'Science as a public enterprise'
  5. Diabetes & obesity: getting to the heart of the matter

    6. 2010

  6. Inter Academy Medical Panel Statement on the health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change
  7. Statement on the health of women and children
  8. Academy submissions to the spending review consultation 2010
  9. Biomedical research - a platform for increasing health and wealth in the UK
  10. Redressing the balance: the status and valuation of teaching in academic careers
  11. Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical science
  12. Revalidation reforms

    13. 2009

  13. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  14. Rejuvenating ageing research
  15. Genome-wide association studies: understanding the genetics of common disease
  16. Global health diagnostics: research, development and regulation
  17. Biotechnology innovation: opportunities and challenges
  18. Research in general practice

    19. 2008

  19. Global mental health
  20. Brain science, addiction and drugs
  21. Inter-species embryos
  22. Building clinical academic capacity and the allocation of resources across academic specialties

    23. 2007

  23. Optimising stratified medicines R&D: addressing scientific and economic issues
  24. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  25. Careers for biomedical scientists and clinicians in industry
  26. Modernising medical careers inquiry
  27. Systems biology

    28. 2006

  28. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
  29. Use of non-human primates in research
  30. Pandemic influenza
  31. Science of violence
  32. Reform of research funding and assessment
  33. Public health - ethical issues
  34. Sir David Cooksey's review of UK health research
  35. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  36. Research ethics committees
  37. MB PhD working group
  38. Testing antibody therapies

    39. 2005

  39. Safer Medicines
  40. Human tissue consultations
  41. RAE 2008 Consultation: Panel criteria and methods
  42. The freedom to succeed
  43. Mental Capacity Bill
  44. Strengthening health services research
  45. SARS
  46. Microbial challenge studies

    47. 2004

  47. Detection and identification of infectious disease
  48. The science of ageing
  49. Choosing health
  50. Restoring neurological function
  51. Calling time: the nation's drinking as a major health issue
  52. Science spending
  53. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
  54. Human tissue legislation

    55. 2003

  55. Strengthening clinical research

    56. 2002

  56. Unclaimed and unidentified organs
  57. Infectious disease in livestock
  58. The structure, constitution and governance of the General Medical Council

    59. 2001

  59. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
  60. Vaccines - current status and future needs
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Inter-species embryos

Summary| Working Group Membership| Terms of Reference| Review Group Membership| Project Downloads

Summary:

In preparation for the revision of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, the Academy undertook a working group study into research on embryos combining human and non-human material (inter-species embryos).

The membership of the original working group is given below. For information on  current activity in this area click here.

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Working Group Membership:

Professor Martin Bobrow CBE FRS FMedSci (Chair)
Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge

Professor Allan Bradley FRS FMedSci
Director, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

Professor Peter Braude FMedSci
Head, Department of Women's Health, King's College London

Sir Martin Evans FRS FMedSci
Professor of Mammalian Genetics, University of Cardiff

Dr Peter Goodfellow FRS FMedSci

Professor John Harris FMedSci
Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, University of Manchester

Professor Peter Lipton FMedSci
Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Professor Lipton sadly passed away since publication of the report.

Dr Robin Lovell-Badge FRS FMedSci
Head of Division of Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute of Medical Research

Dr Anne McLaren DBE FRS FMedSci
Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge
Dr McLaren sadly passed away since publication of the report.

Professor Martin Raff FRS FMedSci
Emeritus Professor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Cambridge

Professor Austin Smith FRS
Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge

Professor Doug Turnbull FMedSci
Professor of Neurgoloy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Sir Greg Winter FRS FMedSci
Head of Division, Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry Department, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Cambridge 

Dr Helen Munn (Secretariat)
Policy Manager, Academy of Medical Sciences

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Terms of Reference:
  • To propose definitions of embryos combining human and non-human material, and identify relevant research protocols.
  • To identify and agree key opportunities for research using such embryos, and cells derived from them, together with an assessment of how these opportunities are balanced by safety and ethical concerns.
  • To provide recommendations where appropriate.

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Review Group Membership:

Sir Richard Gardner FRS
Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS FMedSci
Group Leader and Section Head, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh

Baroness Onora O'Neill PBA HonFRS FMedSci
President, The British Academy

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