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Wellcome Strategic Programme
iSEI is pleased to announce the Wellcome Strategic Programme on The Human Body, its Scope, Limits and Future. This new 5-year programme of work is supported by a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award of more than £800,000. Full details available in:
More than £300K funding is available for outstanding applicants to our Doctoral (PhD) and Masters (MPhil/MA/MSc) programmes, for entry in 2009-2010.
Who Owns Science? iSEI launch meeting and public lectures
To mark the launch of iSEI in July 2008, John Sulston, Chair of iSEI and Joseph Stiglitz, Chair of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, gave agenda-setting public lectures around the topic Who Owns Science? that considered whether science has become a victim of commercial funding.
- View the public lectures in Resources
- Visit the research area Who Owns Science?
Interdisciplinary research
iSEI brings together researchers in ethics, law, philosophy, science and medicine to examine how the social and ethical consequences of science and technology can be managed in a way that protects people and makes their lives better. See our Research areas to find out more.