The University of Sheffield
Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics

Past Projects

ESRC: European Law and New Health Technologies

Tammy Hervey (partner) with Mark Flear (PI) Queen’s University Belfast, ESRC - European Law and New Health
Technologies, £18,517.53.

Soft Nanotechnology

Richard Jones, Polymor Centre, EPSRC Soft Nanotechnology, £796,262, 2007-2012

Privileged

Mark Taylor, joint PI with David Townend, EU FP6 programme, ‘PRIVELEGED: Privacy in Law, Ethics and
Genetic Data’, €350,000 (total €730,000). The Privileged Project website

IPBio White Rose Project

Aurora Plomer (Sheffield PI) with Gregory Radick (PI ‘Patent Boundaries and IPbio’ White Rose), £13,350, 2009-2010.
IPBio Website

Synthetic Biology

Aurora Plomer (partner) with Phillip Wright and Robert Poole (PI), BBSRC/EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC, Microbial
Applications to Tissue Engineering a network in Synthetic Biology £135,000, 2009-2011.
M.A.T.E.S Website

Brocher Foundation

Aurora Plomer has been awarded a visiting fellowship by the Brocher Foundation. Whilst staying at the Foundation in July 2011, she will be researching the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.

British Acadamy Travel Award

Exploring collaborative research on UK-India regulation of new biotechnologies - Dr Chamu Kuppuswammy