Pharmacogenetics
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Professor Bob Hepple QC, FBA (Chairman)
Professor Catherine Peckham CBE (Deputy Chairman)
Professor Tom Baldwin
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman KCB FRSE
The Rt Reverend Richard Harries DD FKC FRSL
Professor Peter Lipton *
Baroness Perry of Southwark **
Professor Martin Raff FRS
Mr Nick Ross
Professor Herbert Sewell
Professor Peter Smith CBE
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern DBE FBA
Professor Albert Weale FBA
Dr Alan Williamson FRSE
Professor Andrew Wilkie
* (co-opted member of the Council for the period of chairing the Working Party
Pharmacogenetics: ethical issues)
** (co-opted member of the Council for the period of chairing the Working Party on the ethics
of research involving animals)
Secretariat
Dr Sandy Thomas (Director)
Ms Tor Lezemore
Mr Harald Schmidt
Mrs Julia Fox
Ms Natalie Bartle
Ms Nicola Perrin
Ms Elaine Talaat-Abdalla
Ms Maria Gonzalez-Nogal
The terms of reference are as follows:
1 to identify and define ethical questions raised by recent advances in biological and medical
research 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 of new guidelines by the appropriate regulatory or other body;
3 in the light of the outcome of its work, to publish reports; and to make representations, as the
Council may judge appropriate.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is funded jointly by
the Medical Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Wellcome Trust