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Sarah Norcross

Sarah Norcross

Director, PET

Sarah Norcross is Director of PET and Commissioning Editor of its flagship publication BioNews. Together with Sandy Starr, she organises PET's public events. Sarah often represents PET in the media nationally (including on the Today programme, BBC News, ITV News, 5 News, Good Morning Britain, Sunday Morning Live) and internationally (including on BBC World News, Mittagsmagazin and Fala Brasil and in Die Welt), as well as in more specialist publications (including Science magazine, the British Medical Journal and Reproductive BioMedicine Online). Sarah is also a Trustee at the British Fertility Society (BFS), Chair of the BFS Special Interest Group on Law, Policy and Ethics, and an External Adviser to the University of Cambridge's Reproduction Strategic Research Initiative.Sarah serves on the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's Working Group on Add-Ons, on the National Infertility Group convened by the Scottish Government, and on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Patient Organisation Stakeholder Group. She was previously Co-chair of the campaigning organisation Fertility Fairness, and she also chaired a group of clinicians, scientists, patient support groups and medical research charities which campaigned and advised on the content of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 as it passed through the UK Parliament. She has advised on numerous research projects, most recently Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and Donor-Conception and Egg Donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain. Previously, she worked as a Barrister carrying out advocacy in civil and criminal courts on the Northern Circuit.

BioNews Articles by Sarah Norcross

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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27 June 2022 • 4 minutes read

Thirty years of PET: our 'Fertility, Genomics and Embryo Research' report

by Sarah Norcross

PET turns 30 this year, but our story goes back further than that – at least as far back as the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the world's first IVF baby...

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13 June 2022 • 1 minute read

A new look for BioNews

by Sarah Norcross

Welcome to your new look BioNews. We hope you like it...

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23 May 2022 • 1 minute read

Heads up — BioNews is changing

by Sarah Norcross

We are delighted to announce that we are in the final stages of PET's website redevelopment project...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Comment
31 January 2022 • 8 minutes read

Adding Up What We Know: A Global Perspective on Fertility Treatment Add-Ons

by Sarah Norcross

There has been much professional and public debate about the use of so-called fertility treatment 'add-ons' over the years...

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14 January 2022 • 4 minutes read

What were you reading in 2021?

by Sarah Norcross

In 2021 we published 99 comment pieces, 334 news articles and 74 reviews in BioNews...

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6 September 2021 • 3 minutes read

After our campaign, egg storage law comes out of the cold

by Sarah Norcross

We at the Progress Educational Trust are delighted that our #ExtendTheLimit campaign, to extend the ten-year storage limit for eggs frozen for non-medical or 'social' reasons, has succeeded – insofar as it now has Government backing...

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21 June 2021 • 4 minutes read

Why fertility treatment must be in the Women's Health Strategy

by Sarah Norcross

The Progress Educational Trust draws the attention of the UK government to five areas of fertility treatment which have far-reaching consequences for the health of women...

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2 November 2020 • 8 minutes read

Fertility treatment and COVID-19: lessons from, and for, lockdown

by Sarah Norcross

As England prepares to enter another lockdown, which is expected to last for at least a month, PET is holding a free-to-attend online event exploring what lockdowns mean for fertility patients...

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7 September 2020 • 4 minutes read

What should we be testing for in sperm and egg donors?

by Sarah Norcross

This week, the Progress Educational Trust — in partnership with the Scottish Government — will be exploring the role of traditional and expanded carrier screening in assessing the suitability of sperm and egg donors...

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15 June 2020 • 2 minutes read

Volunteering during a pandemic

by Sarah Norcross

Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, is interviewed by the radio station Voice of Islam...

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