David Albert Jones, Professor of Bioethics, St Mary’s University

The Wellcome-funded Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) is a 5-year, £10 million research project involving 25 groups from across the UK and Europe. https://hdbi.org/

Over the course of multiple workshops, HDBI sought an updated account of where public hopes, concerns and aspirations lie when it comes to research with early human embryos that are donated, with consent, to research because they are no longer needed, or are unsuitable, for fertility treatment or embryos that are created for research from donated sperm and eggs.

David Albert Jones, Professor of Bioethics, St Mary’s University, gives his personal view on embryo research.