Antony Blackburn-Starza is Legal Editor at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. Together with his fellow BioNews editors James Brooks and Dr Rebecca Hill, and PET's Founding Chair of Trustees Professor Marcus Pembrey, he runs the BioNews internship scheme which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. He also teaches Obligations at the University of Kent's Law School, and he is a Member of Lincoln's Inn.

Antony studied Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, went on to obtain an MA in Medical Law and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, and completed the the Bar Professional Training Course at City University London's Law School. His BioNews article 'UK lags behind the rest of Europe in IVF' is reproduced in Reproductive Ethics (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA). He is particularly interested in medical ethics, patents and socio-legal approaches to new medical technologies.