Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
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The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) is a research institute founded at the University of Manchester in 2007 with a mission to examine the role and moral responsibilities of science, technology and innovation in the contemporary world. Chaired by the Nobel laureate John Sulston (formerly the founding director of the Sanger Institute) and directed by the bioethicist John Harris, iSEI performs multi-disciplinary research across four broad areas: What is Science For? Who Owns Science? How Should Science be Used? and the Ethics of Emerging Technologies.
Funded by a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award, iSEI has embarked on a 5-year research programme on ‘The Human Body: Its Scope, Limits and Future’,{{cite web|url=http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/research/wellcomestrategicprogramme/ | title=The Human Body: Its Scope, Limits and Future |publisher=The University of Manchester| access-date=2009-04-22}} starting in 2009. This work will follow five strands within iSEI's existing research portfolio:
• Human Biomaterials
• Genethics
• Reproduction
• Enhancement
• Methods in Bioethics
Publications
= The Manchester Manifesto =
In 2009, the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation published the Manchester Manifesto, the signatories of which include Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz (also director of Brooks World Poverty Institute), John Sulston.{{cite web|title=Nobel duo ask: "Who owns science?"|url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3805}} The manifesto raised questions about the ownership of science and the rationale for strict intellectual property rights{{cite web|title=The Manchester Manifesto|url=http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/TheManchesterManifesto.pdf}} and was widely reported in the British media, with articles in the Financial Times,{{cite news|last=Cookson|first=Clive|title=Manchester Manifesto asks: Who owns science?|url=http://blogs.ft.com/scienceblog/2009/11/26/manchester-manifesto-asks-who-owns-science/|access-date=8 June 2011|newspaper=Financial Times}} The Times,{{cite news|last=Jenkins|first=Russell|title=Medical research is 'hindered by out-of-date laws'|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4272828.ece|location=London|work=The Times|date=5 July 2008}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The Guardian{{cite news|last=Sulston|first=John|title=How science is shackled by intellectual property|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/26/science-shackles-intellectual-property|access-date=8 June 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=26 November 2009}} accompanied by interviews of the Nobel duo in the BBC's Today programme.{{cite news|title=Has science become too commercial?|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7491000/7491201.stm|access-date=8 June 2011 | work=BBC News|date=5 July 2008}} The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys welcomed aspects of the manifesto, but criticised the authors views as being "ill-informed and misleading",{{cite news|last=Prowse|first=Peter|title=Patent profession welcomes Manchester Manifesto on science but slams 'misleading' comments on IP|url=http://www.cipa.org.uk/pages/press/article?D5C2CBED-894B-488B-ACD2-07B01E204A06|access-date=8 June 2011|newspaper=CIPA News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927234823/http://www.cipa.org.uk/pages/press/article?D5C2CBED-894B-488B-ACD2-07B01E204A06|archive-date=27 September 2011|url-status=dead}} leading the authors to respond "it was not the purpose of the Manchester Manifesto to abolish intellectual property, nor yet its governance by laws; but to bring these far more into line with the public interest."{{cite web|title=Responses|url=http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/themanchestermanifesto/responses/}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/ Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619201752/http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/ |date=19 June 2012 }}
- [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ University of Manchester]
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