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Sandy Starr

Progress Educational Trust (PET), UK

Sandy Starr is Deputy Director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity that advances understanding of science, law and ethics in relation to assisted conception, genetics/genomics and embryo/stem cell research.

Sandy serves on the Oversight Group of the project 'Governance of Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models'. Previously, he served on the working groups that produced the guidance 'Ethical Issues in Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis' and 'Prenatal Diagnosis and Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Germline Cancer Susceptibility Gene Variants'.

Sandy is author of the pamphlet 'AI: Separating Man from Machine'. He has lectured and written about topics including genome editing (for the Thackray Museum of Medicine and the British Medical Bulletin), the history of algorithms, and the life and work of figures including Ada Lovelace, JBS Haldane and Alan Turing.

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