| 19/04/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A PET event about proposed changes to UK surrogacy law – including a new Surrogacy Bill drafted by the Law Commissions – chaired by Sarah Norcross, with speakers including Professor Gillian Black, Beverley Addison, Dr Alan Brown and Alan Inglis... |
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| 29/03/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A free-to-attend online event about the HFEA's current consultation on reforming fertility and embryo law, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Peter Thompson, Dr Kay Elder, James Lawford Davies, Dr Rachel Gregoire and Venessa Smith... |
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| 15/03/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A free-to-attend online event about how employees and employers relate to each other if an employee needs assisted conception, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Nickie Aiken MP, Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Anya Sizer, Becky Kearns and Natalie Sutherland... |
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| 01/03/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A PET event about what happens to unused IVF embryos after fertility treatment is completed, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Joanne Leitch, Anne Chien and Sharon Martin... |
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| 15/02/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A PET event about pregnancy loss in the context of fertility treatment and how best to support patients, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Professor Abha Maheshwari, Dr Ashleigh Holt-Kentwell, Dr Justin Chu and Ruth Bender Atik... |
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| 01/02/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A free-to-attend online event marking 100 years since JBS Haldane pioneered the idea of IVF in 'Daedalus', chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Sandy Starr, Samanth Subramanian, Professor Max Saunders, Professor Nick Hopwood and Dr Chloe Romanis... |
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| 18/01/2023 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A PET event exploring and explaining genetics/genomics in the context of assisted conception, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Dr Jonathan Berg, Dr Francesca Forzano, Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka and Dr Nicola Williams... |
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| 07/12/2022 9.15AM - 5.45PM (GMT) |
| 'Making Fertility Treatment Fair: Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome?', with speakers including Professor Dame Lesley Regan (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Dr Gitau Mburu (Scientist at the WHO) and Julia Chain (Chair of the HFEA)... |
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| 23/11/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A PET event about about what happens if people who have sperm, eggs or embryos in storage separate from their partner, or if they die, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Robert Gilmour, Professor Abha Maheshwari and James Lawford Davies... |
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| 02/11/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| A PET event marking 30 years of intracytoplasmic sperm injection, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor André Van Steirteghem, Dr Morven Dean, Professor Christopher Barratt, Professor Barbara Luke and Professor Inge Liebaers... |
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| 12/10/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A PET event about about regulating new reproductive technologies, including challenges posed by algorithms and genome editing, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Helen O'Neill, Dr Alison Campbell, Dr Andy Greenfield and Alex Denoon... |
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| 05/10/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A PET event about how UK law governing fertility treatment & embryo research might be changed in the near future, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Alison Murdoch, Dr Ippokratis Sarris, Professor Emily Jackson & Stuart Lavery... |
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| 29/09/2022 6.00PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| A PET event about donor conception, the identifiabity of donors and related future changes to UK fertility law, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dorothy Byrne, Kevin Moore, Nina Barnsley, Dr Jo Lysons and Professor Guido Pennings... |
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| 07/09/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A PET event about recent changes to the law governing the storage of sperm/eggs/embryos, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Joanne Anton, Joanne Leitch, Sharon Martin and James Lawford Davies. Click/tap on the event title above to register. |
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| 20/07/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| A PET event marking Gregor Mendel's 200th birthday, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr John Parrington, Dr Gemma Chandratillake, Angela Douglas, Vivienne Parry and Dr David Bick. Click/tap on the event title above to register. |
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| 25/05/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| An online event about legal limits on reproductive technology and whether these should be changed, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Nick Hopwood, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, Professor Mary Herbert, Julian Hitchcock... |
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| 27/04/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| An online event about the powers wielded by the UK's regulator of fertility treatment and embryo research, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Rachel Cutting, Dr Mohamed Taranissi, Dr Marta Jansà-Pérez, Dr Debra Bloor and Katy Lindemann... |
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| 16/03/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about whole genome sequencing at birth and the workforce, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Sarah-Jane Marsh, Dr Michelle Bishop, Professor Eamonn Sheridan, Professor Angus Clarke, Professor Pali Hungin & Amanda Pichini... |
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| 02/03/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about genome editing and epigenome editing, chaired by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge and Sarah Norcross, with speakers including Katherine Littler, Professor Kathy Niakan, Professor Wolf Reik, Professor Henry Greely and Nick Meade... |
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| 16/02/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about whole genome sequencing at birth and storing genomic data throughout a lifetime, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Catherine Joynson, Sabine Starr, Professor Felicity Boardman, Dr Mavis Machirori, Phil Booth and Arzoo Ahmed... |
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| 09/02/2022 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| An online event about the risks posed by IVF and related treatment, achaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Abha Maheshwari, Dr Michael Rimmer, Professor Ashley Moffett, Professor Marian Knight and Rachel Cutting... |
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| 26/01/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about fertility treatment 'add-ons', chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Kersti Lundin, Dr Manuela Perrotta, Dr Sarah Lensen, Satu Rautakallio-Hokkanen, Dr Sigal Klipstein and Peter Thompson... |
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| 19/01/2022 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event asking how researchers should be able to use genomic data from newborn babies, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Imran Kausar, Michelle Mackie, Professor Neena Modi, Professor Michael Parker and Dr Richard Scott... |
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| 15/12/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about whole genome sequencing at birth, asking ethical and practical questions about consent, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Waheeda Abbas, Professor Anneke Lucassen, Amanda Pichini and Dr Simon Ramsden... |
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| 01/12/2021 9.15AM - 5.45PM (GMT) |
| The 2021 Annual Conference of the Progress Educational Trust, with speakers including Julia Chain, Professor Carlos Calhaz-Jorge, Dr Louise Strong, Dr Jamie Metzl, Professor Emily Jackson, Dr Raj Mathur, Juliet Tizzard, Professor Insoo Hyun and more... |
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| 17/11/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about whole genome sequencing at birth and which genes/variants should be studied and reported on, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Emma Baple, Professor Frances Flinter, Dr Richard Scott and Dr Charles Steward... |
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| 03/11/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An online event about screening newborn babies for disease, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Will Evans, Professor Anne Mackie, Nick Meade and Professor Laurent Servais... |
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| 20/10/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| An event about the future of female fertility, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Richard Anderson, Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, Professor Colin Duncan and Dr Rita Vassena... |
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| 06/10/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| An event about the future of assisted reproduction, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor David Albertini, Professor Adèle Marston, Professor Rod Mitchell and Professor Evelyn Telfer... |
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| 28/09/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| An event about the future of egg freezing, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Joanne Anton, Baroness Ruth Deech, Sharon Jones, Professor Jason Kasraie, Steve Pugh and Mark Wilcox... |
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| 14/07/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (BST) |
| An event discussing the World Health Organisation's new 'Human Genome Editing' reports, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, Dr Norah Fogarty, Dr Peter Mills and Professor Vardit Ravitsky... |
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| 16/06/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| An event about male infertility chaired by Sarah Norcross, with speakers including Professor Robert Brannigan, Jamie Chorlton, Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva and Dr Tiffany Wood... |
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| 14/04/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| An event about the enduring legacy of the late Baroness Mary Warnock, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Sarah Franklin, Professor Emily Jackson, Professor Alison Murdoch and Peter Thompson... |
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| 16/03/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| An event about the health of women undergoing fertility treatment, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, Dr Melanie Davies, Professor Jenny Kurinczuk and Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy... |
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| 11/03/2021 5.30PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| An event about how egg freezing relates to patient interests and business interests, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Eileen Burbidge, Rachel Cutting, Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Professor Marcia Inhorn and Dr Lucy van de Wiel... |
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| 23/02/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| An event about the health of people conceived via IVF, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Daniel Brison, Dr Sebastiaan Mastenbroek, Professor Anja Bisgaard Pinborg... |
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| 04/02/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| A FREE-to-attend online event about vaccination and assisted conception, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Jason Kasraie, Dr Sigal Klipstein and Dr Anna Veiga... |
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| 14/01/2021 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| An online event about consumer protection for fertility patients, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Clare Ettinghausen, Katy Lindemann, Dr Raj Mathur, Dr Louise Strong and Mark Wilcox... |
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| 09/12/2020 9.15AM - 5.30PM (GMT) |
| The 2020 Annual Conference of the Progress Educational Trust, exploring what we know about - and how we might deal with - coronavirus/COVID-19 in relation to fertility and genomics... |
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| 03/12/2020 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| Event about how (in)fertility should be addressed in education, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Adam Balen, Anna Shams Ili and Sharon Martin... |
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| 18/11/2020 5.30PM - 7.00PM (GMT) |
| Event asking what can be learned from the successes of Scottish fertility clinics, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Sally Cheshire, Colin Sinclair, Dr Abha Maheshwari and Gwenda Burns... |
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| 05/11/2020 5.00PM - 7.30PM (GMT) |
| Event about supporting patients through the COVID-19 pandemic, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Professor Jacky Boivin, Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Seetal Savla, Carmel Dennehy... |
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| 21/10/2020 6.30PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| An online event discussing fertility and assisted conception in relation to age, taking place TODAY, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva, Dr Sarah Stock, Dr Anna Smajdor and Professor Glenn Cohen... |
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| 14/10/2020 6.30PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| Event chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Richard Anderson, Professor Evelyn Telfer, Professor Christopher Barratt and Dr Vasanti Jadva... |
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| 29/09/2020 5.00PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| Event about what happens to unused embryos following fertility treatment, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Joanne Leitch, Kate Brian, Laura Riley and Professor Adèle Marston... |
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| 16/09/2020 6.30PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| An event about donor conception, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Dr Petra Nordqvist, Natasha Fox, Nina Barnsley, Erika Tranfield and Natalie Gamble... |
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| 08/09/2020 5.30PM - 7.00PM (BST) |
| FREE-to-attend online event chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Professor Scott Nelson, Dr Véronique Berman and Professor Guido Pennings... |
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| 23/07/2020 5.00PM - 6.00PM (BST) |
| A FREE-to-attend online event taking place, chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers Professor Jason Kasraie and Dr Ippokratis Sarris, exploring what fertility clinics are - and should be - doing in relation to coronavirus testing... |
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| 09/07/2020 5.00PM - 6.00PM (BST) |
| A FREE-to-attend online event featuring speaker James Lawford Davies and chaired by Sarah Norcross, discussing a new law which extends egg, sperm and embryo storage limits in light of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic... |
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| 08/01/2020 6.00PM - 8.00PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Great Hall, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
| A FREE-to-attend public event in Edinburgh, preceded by hot food and refreshments, chaired by Professor Allan Pacey with speakers including Rachel Cutting, Dr Melanie Davies, Sharon Jones and James Lawford Davies... |
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| 04/12/2019 9.30AM - 5.30PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Amnesty International, London - with online viewing on |
| The 2020 Annual Conference of the Progress Educational Trust, exploring challenging questions around fertility-related practices, technologies and treatments that are the subject of popular claims or widely held assumptions... |
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| 26/11/2019 6.30PM - 8.00PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Riddle's Court, Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
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| 30/10/2019 6.30PM - 8.00PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Hill Dickinson, Broadgate Tower, London - with online viewing on |
| A FREE-to-attend public event in London, chaired by Dr Ippokratis Sarris with speakers including James Lawford Davies, Catherine Drennan and Catherine Dobson... |
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| 24/09/2019 6.30PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| To be held at: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
| There are still some places available at this FREE-to-attend Progress Educational Trust/Scottish Government event about surrogacy, taking place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. |
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| 05/09/2019 6.30PM - 8.00PM (BST) |
| To be held at: Science and Industry Museum (Garratt Suite), Manchester - with online viewing on |
| A FREE-to-attend public event in Manchester THIS COMING WEDNESDAY (4 September 2019), co-chaired by Sarah Norcross and Dr Anneke Seller, with speakers including Dr Simon Ramsden, Professor Jill Clayton-Smith, Elizabeth Alexander and Sabine Starr... |
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| 19/06/2019 6.30PM - 8.15PM (BST) |
| To be held at: Seminar Room 4, University of Liverpool (London Campus), London - with online viewing on |
| LAST CHANCE to register for this FREE-to-attend public event, taking place in central London THIS EVENING (Wednesday 19 June), co-chaired by Sarah Norcross and Dr Lucy Frith with speakers including Debbie Kennett, Andy Waters and Louise Johnson... |
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| 16/05/2019 6.30PM - 8.30PM (BST) |
| To be held at: Amnesty International, London - with online viewing on |
| LAST CHANCE to book for this FREE-to-attend public event about genomics and reproduction, taking place in London THIS EVENING, chaired by Jane Fisher with speakers including Dr Jess Buxton, César Díaz García, Karen Sage and Dr Véronique Berman... |
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| 03/04/2019 6.00PM - 8.30PM (BST) |
| To be held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London - with online viewing on |
| A FREE-to-attend public event in central London about surrogacy, chaired by Dr Jane Stewart with speakers including Professor Nick Hopkins, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Elizabeth Isaacs QC, Dr Imogen Goold and Sarah Jones... |
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| 19/03/2019 6.15PM - 8.00PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Great Hall, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
| FREE TO ATTEND EVENT : panel discussion on the topic of the ethical and scientific boundaries of genome editing. Refreshments will be served from 5:30pm. |
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| 19/03/2019 2.00PM - 5.30PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: Great Hall, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
| An afternoon symposium about the rapidly moving boundaries of reproductive medicine and embryo research. The symposium will be followed by drinks and a free to attend public debate. |
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| 05/03/2019 6.00PM - 8.00PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: The Studio, Birmingham - with online viewing on |
| A FREE TO ATTEND EVENT : Part of the GENOMICS CONVERSATION, this Speaker Panel is made up of people (or familty members) who have had their whole genome sequenced, in order to better understand and treat a condition of known or suspected genetic origin. |
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| 24/01/2019 6.30PM - 8.30PM (GMT) |
| To be held at: King Khalid Building (Symposium Hall), Edinburgh - with online viewing on |
| FREE TO ATTEND EVENT :
A look back by the world's second IVF baby Alastair Macdonald on the circumstances of his conception, birth and childhood, followed by a discussion on the evolution of IVF. |
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