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Progress Educational
Trust has hosted a number of conferences and debates on topical
issues in assisted reproduction and genetics during the past decade.
Click on the title of each event to see programme details and,
where available, transcripts of speakers' presentations.
2005
PUTTING
STEM CELLS INTO PRACTICE:
Ethical,
legal and social issues raised by embryonic and adult stem cell
research
PET Annual Conference,
Tuesday 15 November 2005
Institute of Child Health | London
Stem cell research using cells taken from human embryos and adult
tissues shows potential towards developing urgently needed future
medical treatments. However, this research raises complex ethical,
legal and social questions. How should patients, researchers,
regulators, funders and society as a whole take these into account?
What are the urgent questions we should address now- and which
challenges might we face in decades to come?
DECIPHERING
DNA: genetics in disaster situations and everyday policing
19
July 2005, Techniquest, Cardiff
SMOKE
SIGNALS: how genes and environment affect smoking behaviour
9
July 2005, Royal College of Physicians, Cardiff
Testing Choices
4 May 2005
Organised by Progress Educational Trust, hosted by The BA (British
Association for the Advancement of Science) This event was made
possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
DNA Profiling and
You
21 April 2005
Organised by
Progress Educational Trust hosted by Nowgen, the North West Genetics
Knowledge Park. This event was made possible by a grant from the
UK Department of Health '
Future Families
6 April 2005
Organised by
Progress Educational Trust hosted by the law firm, Bevan
Brittan. This event was made possible by a grant from
the UK Department of Health
2004
Frozen Assets: egg and sperm donation after the removal of donor
anonymity
17 November 2004, The Institute for Child Health, London WC1
UK fertility clinics
will soon use identifiable sperm and egg donors only. How might
current practices such as egg sharing and the selection of gamete
donors be affected by this change?
The HFEA is also reviewing its policy on reimbursement for gamete
donors. Would a change in the current rules benefit, or potentially
harm potential donors, recipients and their families? This
conference was timed to coincide with an HFEA
review of gamete donation, which included a public consultation
open at the time of this event.
Programme
- Laura Spoelstra
| National Gamete Donation Trust |Egg donation and payment,
a donor's perspective
- Marilyn Crawshaw
| University of York | Psychological impact of payment on
children of gamete donors
- Heather Draper |
University of Birmingham |
Payment makes no difference to issues around gamete donation
and egg sharing
- Dr Gillian Lockwood
| Midland Fertility Services | Gamete donation and the removal
of anonymity
- Dr Kamal Ahuja and
Mr Eric Simons | Cromwell IVF & Fertility Centre| Egg sharing,
payment and the removal of anonymity
- Dr Allan Pacey,
University of Sheffield | Sperm donors: time to review the
rules?
- Lisa Saffron, Pink
Parents UK | Why shouldn't recipients be able to pick their
donors?
Testing Times
28 September
2004
The Guardian
Newsroom, London.
This event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department
of Health
Assisted reproduction
and the Law
15
July 2004
Grand Committee
Room, Westminster
This special seminar
was organised by PET, in a collaboration between PET and reproductive
legal consultancy Epalan, in association with the House of Commons
Science and Technology Committee. This event aimed to allow patients,
health professionals and researchers to share their experiences
and opinions about how the field is regulated with members of
the Committee and other parliamentarians in advance of the Science
and Technology Committee's inquiry on the same subject.
Testing times: the
ethics of genetic screening
16 June 2004
Techniquest, Cardiff.
This event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department
of Health
Fertility
rights: the great debate
28 April 2004
At-Bristol, Bristol. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
Saviour
siblings: is it right to create a tissue-donor baby?
24 March 2004
Centre for Life, Newcastle. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
Fatherless
families: should single women and lesbian couples have IVF?
18 March 2004
House of Commons, London.
This event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department
of Health
2003
Annual
Conference: Chosen children: reproductive decision-making and
the welfare of children
25 November 2003
Institute of Child Health, London
Gene hype: is human genetics oversold or undervalued?
12 November 2003
University of Manchester. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
Saviour siblings: is it right to
create a tissue-donor baby?
16 October 2003
Guardian Newsroom, London. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
Gene hype: is human genetics oversold or undervalued?
29 May 2003
Guardian Newsroom, London. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
On
Growth and Form: music and art inspired by genetics and embryology
6 July 2003
Institute of Child Health, London
Chance
or choice? Current issues in sex selection
PET annual Conference, 29 January 2003
Institute of Child Health, London
2002
Genetic
susceptibility tests over the counter
13 November 2002
Institute of Child Health, London. This
event was made possible by a grant from the UK Department of Health
2001
Controversy, control and creativity:
policy making in assisted reproduction and genetics
7 December 2001
Institute of Child Health, London
2000
Gamete privacy: should
egg and sperm donors be anonymous?
14 December 2000
The Royal Society, London
1999
Test tube histories: an evening
of words and images celebrating 21 years of IVF
9 November 1999
The Royal Society, London
1998
Science friction: public debate
and the regulation of biomedicine
16 March 1998
The Royal Society, London
1997
Recruiting gamete donors
in the 21st century
16 May 1997
The Royal Society, London
Embryos, genes and ethics:
how far should the genetic testing of embryos go?
19 March 1997
The Royal Society, London
1996
Reproductive
technology: the real issues
19 March 1996
The Royal Society, London
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