Durham CELLS

Durham CELLS

Formation	2011
Focus	To support excellence in academic research, innovative teaching and public dialogue on the ethical, social and regulatory issues raised by the life sciences
Location	Durham, United Kingdom
Parent organization	Durham University
Website	https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/ethics-law-life-sciences/

Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) is a research centre at Durham University, based in Durham Law School. It focuses on the legal and ethical issues raised by biological science, medicine and regulation: biolaw and bioethics. It was founded in December 2011 ^[1] and has members from anthropology, biology, law, medicine, philosophy, sociology and theology. ^[2]

Durham CELLS is an established expert research centre in biolaw and bioethics. ^{[3] [4]} Its activities include:

• running a research blog on issues relating to the ethical, social and regulatory issues raised by the life sciences, ^{[5] [6]}
• running a blog on obstetric violence, supported by conferences and seminars, ^{[7] [8]}
• engaging school students with biomedicine and bioethics, ^{[9] [10] [11]} and
• supporting ethics advisory committees. ^[12]

Notable members

Founder: Shaun Pattinson (2011)

Current Directors: Samantha Halliday and Shaun Pattinson

Former Directors include Deryck Beyleveld

References

1. Website of founder"
2. Website of Durham CELLS
3. "Northern Health Science Alliance website".
4. Mapping the Arts and Humanities
5. Professor McMahon publishes piece on patents and stem cell-based embryo models on Durham CELLS Blog recently cited in Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report
6. Durham CELLS blog
7. Obstetric Violence Blog
8. Olivia Verity and Camilla Pickles, ‘Obstetric Violence: Where is the Law?’ AIMS Journal, 2022, vol. 34, No. 2
9. Project video entitled ‘Human Cloning and Mitochondrial Donation: Mock Court Case’
10. / Project video entitled ‘Human Cloning and Mitochondrial Donation: Mock Parliamentary Debate’
11. Project video entitled ‘Understanding stem cell research: Students' First Debate on the (fictional) Stem Cell Bill’
12. Durham expert appointed to UK Covid-19 Inquiry ethics panel