BioNews
BioNews, an e-mail newsletter and website founded by Juliet Tizzard in 1999, originated from Progress in Reproduction, the in-house journal of the Progress Educational Trust (PET). According to their Twitter page, BioNews provides "news & independent comment on genetics, fertility treatment, embryo/stem cell research & related areas."[1]
Funding organisations
According to their website, "BioNews remains entirely dependent on voluntary donations and sponsorship."[2]
People
Editors
- Sarah Norcross, Commissioning Editor, PET Director, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's National Donation Strategy Group member
- Norcross is a member of the project advisory group at Frank Furedi's University of Kent, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies.
- James Brooks, Science Editor, PET Science Editor
- Originally a science journalist, Brooks worked with Euromedica and CTPartners as a headhunter for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Antony Blackburn-Starza, Legal Editor, PET Legal Editor
- Blackburn-Starza is a PhD student at Frank Furedi's University of Kent. He worked as a policy officer at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, an events organiser at Médecins Sans Frontières. He defends that "Britain is languishing behind other European countries in the number of IVF cycles provided for infertile couples and Brits are three times less likely to undergo IVF than those living in Denmark and Belgium."[3]
- Siobhan Chan, Genetics Editor
- Dr Jess Buxton, Contributing Editor
- Dr Kirsty Horsey, Contributing Editor, former Reproduction Editor, PET Adviser
- Ailsa Stevens, Contributing Editor, former Genetics Editor, Press Officer at Cancer Research UK
- Dr Lux Fatimathas, Contributing Editor. former Genetics Editor
- Dr Gabrielle Samuel, volunteer writer, former Genetics Editor, recipient of Society and Ethics Strategic Award from Wellcome Trust
- Dr Rebecca Hill, former Genetics Editor, interned at the Science Media Centre and Sense About Science
- Chris Chatterton, former Genetics Editor
- Dr Vivienne Raper, former Science Editor, spiked writer,[4], worked with Department of Health, Royal Society of Chemistry, Johnson & Johnson, PR agency De Facto Communications, interned at think-tank Newton's Apple
Contact
- Address:
- Progress Educational Trust
- 140 Gray's Inn Road
- London WC1X 8AX
- United Kingdom
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 7870
- Website: http://www.bionews.org.uk/
- E-mail: snorcross AT progress.org.uk
- Twitter: @BioNewsUK
Notes
- ↑ BioNews, BioNews at Twitter, acc 15 Oct 2013.
- ↑ BioNews, Background, acc 15 Oct 2013.
- ↑ Antony Blackburn-Starza, "UK lags behind the rest of Europe in IVF," BioNews 06 Jul 2009, acc 15 Oct 2013.
- ↑ Vivienne Raper, "The hole where doughnuts used to be," spiked 23 Mar 2011, acc 16 Oct 2013.
