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Professor Stephen Wilkinson receives prestigious Wellcome Trust Award

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Posted on 20 February 2012

Stephen Wilkinson (Professor of Bioethics and Head of the Research Centre for Law, Ethics, & Society) and Rosamund Scott (Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College, London) have jointly been awarded a Senior Investigator Award in Ethics and Society by the Wellcome Trust. The award has been granted to support a programme of work on The Donation and Transfer of Human Reproductive Materials and is expected to be worth more than £900,000 over five years.

Their research will consider the best ethical framework for the donation and transfer of human reproductive materials (such as eggs and sperm) as well as the implications of this framework for clinical practice, law, policy, and regulation. The grant will support a number of post-doctoral researchers, based partly at Keele and partly at King’s, as well research leave for the award-holders, and a series of conferences and workshops.

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