HFEA to announce research licence applications
07 May 2004
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is announcing details of all research licence applications. From today, titles of all research licence applications along with lay summaries of the proposed project will be published on the HFEA website.
Suzi Leather, HFEA Chair says:
"Giving everyone access to this information is the latest move by the HFEA to increase the transparency of the Authority's work. Human embryo research is strictly regulated in the UK. Parliament has provided the framework in which human embryo research can take place and the HFEA looks very carefully at the scientific, ethical and medical issues before granting a licence."
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The HFEA was set up in August 1991 as part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA's principal tasks are to license and monitor clinics that carry out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), donor insemination (DI) and human embryo research. The HFEA also regulates the storage of gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos.
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