The ethics of research involving animals - Nuffield Council on ...

<strong>Nuffield</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on Bio<strong>ethics</strong>
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Bob Hepple QC, FBA (Chairman)
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Catherine Peckham CBE (Deputy Chairman)
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Tom Baldwin
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Margot Brazier OBE*
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Roger Brownsword
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Kenneth Calman KCB FRSE
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Harper
<strong>The</strong> Rt Reverend Richard Harries DD FKC FRSL
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Lipton
Baroness Perry <strong>of</strong> Southwark** (up to March 2005)
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lord Raymond Plant
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Martin Raff FRS (up to March 2005)
Mr Nick Ross (up to March 2005)
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Herbert Sewell
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Smith CBE
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA
Dr Alan Williamson FRSE
* (co-opted member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Council</strong> for the period <strong>of</strong> chairing the Working Party on the <strong>ethics</strong>
<strong>of</strong> prolonging life in fetuses and the newborn)
** (co-opted member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Council</strong> for the period <strong>of</strong> chairing the Working Party on the <strong>ethics</strong>
<strong>of</strong> <strong>research</strong> <strong>involving</strong> <strong>animals</strong>)
Secretariat
Dr Sandy Thomas (Director)
Dr Catherine Moody (Deputy Director)
Mr Harald Schmidt
Ms Caroline Rogers
Ms Catherine Joynson (from January 2005)
Ms Julia Fox (up to March 2005)
Ms Carol Perkins (from April 2005)
Ms Elaine Talaat-Abdalla
Mr Mun-Keat Looi
<strong>The</strong> terms <strong>of</strong> reference <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Council</strong> are:
1 to identify and define ethical questions raised by recent advances in biological and medical
<strong>research</strong> in order to respond to, and to anticipate, public concern;
2 to make arrangements for examining and reporting on such questions with a view to
promoting public understanding and discussion; this may lead, where needed, to the
formulation <strong>of</strong> new guidelines by the appropriate regulatory or other body;
3 in the light <strong>of</strong> the outcome <strong>of</strong> its work, to publish reports; and to make representations, as the
<strong>Council</strong> may judge appropriate.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Nuffield</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on Bio<strong>ethics</strong> is funded jointly by
the Medical Research <strong>Council</strong>, the <strong>Nuffield</strong> Foundation and the Wellcome Trust
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