Current research projects

Current Research Projects licensed by the HFEA

Assisted Conception Service, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The effect of biomass reduction on embryo development after biopsy of either one or two blastomeres (R0175)

Birmingham Women's Hospital /

Institute of Biomedical Research

Human Gamete Interaction and Signalling (R0172 / R0173)

Bourn Hall, Cambridge

The Disaggregation of Embryos for the Purpose of Deriving Stem Cells from Human Surplus Embryos (R0167)

Cardiff Assisted Reproduction Unit

Investigation into the Role of Sperm PLC- Zeta in Human Oocyte Activation (R0161)

Centre for Assisted Reproduction, Coventry

Indicators of Oocyte and Embryo Development (R0155)

Centre at LIFE, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  • Epigenetic Studies of Preimplantation Embryos and Derived Stem Cells  (R0145)
  • Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines using Nuclear Transfer and Parthenogenically Activated Oocytes (R0152)
  • Mitochondrial DNA Disorders: Is there a way to prevent transmission? (R0153)

Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield

Optimisation of human embryonic stem cell derivation and the development of treatments for degenerative diseases (R0115)

Clarendon Wing, Leeds General Infirmary

Maturation of fertilisation of human eggs in vitro (R0104)

Guy's Hospital, London

  • Improving methods for biopsy and preimplantation diagnosis of inherited genetic disease of human preimplantation embryos (R0075)
  • Correlation of embryo morphology with ability to generate embryonic stem cell lines and subsequent growth differentiative characteristics (R0133)

Human Genetics and Embryology Laboratories, University College Hospital, London

The development of novel preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) procedures and the study of early human development (R0113)

King's College London, Stem cell Biology Laboratory Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease

Generation of Disease-Specific Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (R0180)

Lister Hospital, London

Analysis of the Impact of Human Embryo Mosaicism on the Reliability of Pre-implantation Genetics Screening (PGS) (R0163)

London Fertility Centre

Analysis of chromosomes in human preimplantation embryos using FISH and CGH (R0169)

Ninewells Hospital, Dundee

Studies of Embryo Development and Metabolism (R0154)

NURTURE, Nottingham

Evaluation of cardio myocytes derived from embryonic stem cells as a means to characterise receptor/channel expression in human tissue (R0141)

Oxford Fertility Unit

  • Development of a model to study implantation in the human (R0111)
  • To derive human embryonic stem cells and trophoblast cell lines (R0143)
  • To Develop Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for Mitochondrial DNA Disease (R0149)

Reproductive Genetics Institute, London

    Investigation of Major Histocompatability Complex Products and Soluble Protein Expression in Human Embryos at the Pre-implantation Stage (R0165)

    Roslin Cells Limited

    • Platform technologies underpinning human embryonic stem cell derivation (R0136)

Scottish Biomedical

Derivation of a human embryonic stem cell line for the development of drugs for human disease (R0182)  

    The generation of human embryonic stem cells by transferring a human cell into recipient pig eggs (R0183)

Last updated: 30 June 2008