Director, PHG Foundation
Dr Pete Mills is the director of the PHG Foundation, an interdisciplinary health policy think tank and linked charity of the University of Cambridge, with the mission 'to make science work for health'. Originally trained in philosophy, Pete has worked for the last 25 years at the intersection of emerging science, ethics and public policy. Prior to joining the PHG Foundation in 2023, Pete was associate director at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and before that he led the Secretariat of the Human Genetics Commission. He has also held senior policy positions at the UK Department of Health and the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, and has served in representative and advisory roles on several national and international bodies in relation to bioethics, biomedicine, biotechnology and human rights.
'Established in 2007, in a gale of publicity, 23andMe benefitted from the valetudinarian personal genetic healthcare imaginary that appeared in the wake of the Human Genome Project,' writes Dr Pete Mills, as he documents the rise and fall of 23andMe...
Judging from the coverage of the latest Nuffield Council on Bioethics report, 'Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and ethical issues', the subject of altering genetic inheritance in humans has become no less incandescent in recent years...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is seeking views on the reproductive uses of genome editing in humans. Regular readers of BioNews will know that genome editing (including with the CRISPR-Cas9 technique) offers a way of making precisely targeted modifica
The US NAS has published a report on the ethical, social and policy considerations relating to mitochondrial replacement techniques. The recommendation that has inevitably attracted most attention, however, is that only male embryos should be transferred, an approach that was considered but rejected in the UK...
How valuable are emerging biotechnologies? Of all the questions about the prospects of the life sciences, this is the one that UK policy makers seem most eager to answer...
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