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Progress Educational Trust, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH
9.30am-5pm, Wednesday 9 December 2015
The 2015 annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), exploring the advent of new methods of making enduring changes to the human embryo - changes that, if used in treatment, will affect not only the person born but also subsequent generations.
You can read about the themes of the conference and PET's reasons for organising it in the Observer article 'Genome editing raises complex issues - banning it is not the answer', by PET Director Sarah Norcross.
Conference sessions include:
There will also be a Keynote Address by the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser.
In the PET tradition, following introductory presentations the bulk of each session's running time will be devoted to discussion with input from the audience.
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Organized by:
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Invited Speakers:
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Professor Sir Mark Walport (Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, and Head of the Government Office for Science)
Sir Ian Wilmut (Emeritus Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and creator of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell)
Sally Cheshire (Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and Chair of Health Education North West)
Doug Turnbull (Professor of Neurology at Newcastle University, and Director of the Wellcome Trust's Centre for Mitochondrial Research)
Viscount Matt Ridley (Conservative Peer in the House of Lords, author of books including Genome and Nature via Nurture, and columnist for The Times)
John Harris (Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, and member of the Hinxton Group's Steering Committee)
Emily Jackson (Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Member of the British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee)
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (Group Leader in Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute, and member of the Hinxton Group's Steering Committee)
Dr Tony Perry (Head of the University of Bath's Laboratory of Mammalian Molecular Embryology, and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Group on Genome Editing)
Dr Roger Highfield (Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group, and author - with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut - of After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning)
Fiona Fox (Chair of Trustees at the Progress Educational Trust, and Founder and Director of the Science Media Centre)
Dr Calum MacKellar (Director of Research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, and Fellow at the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity)
Timandra Harkness (science writer and broadcaster, and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programmes FutureProofing and Data, Data Everywhere)
Revd Dr Brendan McCarthy (National Adviser to the Church of England on Medical Ethics and Health and Social Care Policy, and former Church of Ireland rector)
Sarah Norcross (Director of the Progress Educational Trust, and Commissioning Editor of BioNews)
[All of the speakers listed above are confirmed]
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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N/A
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Registration:
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Attendees have the option of booking to attend the full conference, just the morning, or just the afternoon.
Further details of this conference, including the agenda and details of how to book, can be found at http://www.progress.org.uk/conference2015
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E-mail:
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sstarr@progress.org.uk
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