James Lawford-Davies is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and a Partner at Lawford Davies Denoon, a law firm that specialises in life sciences. He is also a Lecturer in Law and Medicine at the University of Newcastle's Institute of Human Genetics and a Visiting Research Fellow in Law at Durham University, and he was previously a Senior Associate at the world's largest law firm Clifford Chance. He is described as 'the world leading expert' in embryonic stem cell research in the Financial Times report Innovative Lawyers 2009. He advises a large number of clinics and research centres licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and he has been involved in most of the leading legal cases relating to assisted reproduction and related research. He has advised widely on regulatory and commercial issues relating to embryo and embryonic stem cell research, including cell nuclear replacement, human admixed embryo research, import and export, and the implications of European Union law. He is coauthor of a chapter in From Grid to Healthgrid (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).