APPENDIX 1
Membership
The members of the Committee who conducted
this inquiry were:
The Earl of Carnarvon †
Baroness Cumberlege
Lord Dahrendorf
Lord Donoughue
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
Baroness Northover
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
The Lord Bishop of Oxford (Chairman)
Baroness Perry of Southwark
Baroness Platt of Writtle
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
†Deceased. Member of the Committee until 11 September 2001
The Committee appointed as its Specialist Advisers:
Professor Roger Brownsword[69]
Professor Christopher Higgins[70]
MEMBERS DECLARED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS:
The Earl of Carnarvon—Former Chairman, Agricultural
Research Council; Former Chairman, Equine Virology Foundation;
Chairman, North Hampshire Medical Fund
Baroness Cumberlege—Member, Council of the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund; Chairman, St George's Medical School
Council; Member, Council of the University of Sussex; Vice-President,
Royal College of Nursing; Vice-President, Royal College of Midwives;
Senior Associate, King's Fund; Patron, National Kidney Association;
Adviser to National Osteoporosis Society
Lord Dahrendorf—Non-executive director, Glaxo
Holdings plc 1984-92
Lord Donoughue—Former Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall—Trustee, National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
Baroness Northover—Former lecturer in medical
history, Wellcome Institute and University College, London; wife
of Clinical Director of the ICRF's Bowel Cancer Unit, St Mark's
Hospital
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve—Former member
and Chairman of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission; Chairman,
Nuffield Foundation; former Chairman, Nuffield Council on Bioethics;
Chair, Addenbrooke's Tissue Bank
The Lord Bishop of Oxford (Chairman)—Patron,
Down's Syndrome Society; Patron, Dyslexia Research Society; Patron,
British Epilepsy Association
Baroness Perry of Southwark—Board Member, Addenbrooke's
NHS Trust; Chair, Mental Health Committee, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust;
Chair, Cambridge Research Governance Committee; Patron, Alzheimer's
Research Trust
Baroness Platt of Writtle—Patron, local hospice
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe—Chief Executive,
Universities UK; Member of the Technology Foresight Steering Group
69 Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield.
He is particularly interested in the regulation and ethical application
of new technologies: was co-editor of Law and Human Genetics:
Regulating a Revolution (Oxford: Hart, 1998); he has written
extensively about the morality exclusions in European patent instruments;
and, most recently, he has co-authored Human Dignity in Bioethics
and Biolaw (Oxford: OUP, 2001). Professor Brownsword has also
participated in a number of European bioethical projects, including
that which led to the so-called Barcelona Declaration, which sets
out a scheme of basic principles for ethical science and medicine. Back
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Director of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Head of the Division
of Clinical Sciences at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.
Previously he worked for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and
the University of Oxford. His personal research is in cell and
molecular biology, particularly the molecular basis of the resistance
of cancers to chemotherapy. Although he has not personally worked
with stem cells, research on stem cells in animals and on human
adult stem cells is undertaken in the Clinical Sciences Centre. Back
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