In a statement on their website this charity states: “Epilepsy Action supports all research into epilepsy, and actively funds and carries out non-laboratory research. Epilepsy Action is committed to supporting people with epilepsy and others with a personal connection to have a voice in epilepsy research in the UK.”https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/research [#AMRC#]
Eve Appeal funds research into five gynaecological cancers. In a letter dated 5/12/2018, this charity stated: “We do not fund any research using human embryos and neither do our research teams.”However, this charity endorses compulsory sex education in schools to raise awareness of gynaecological cancers. At the time of writing,…
In a letter dated 18/1/2018, this charity stated: “We do not currently and, to our knowledge, have never previously funded any projects that involve the use of human embryonic stem cells. Stem cells can also be sourced by ‘reprogramming’ living adult cells (from for example skin and hair) and the…
In a letter dated 27/11/2018 this organisation stated: “We have not funded any research in the past involving the use of human embryos and currently cannot foresee any reason why we would in the future. The nature of coeliac disease is such that invariably research involves the study of patients…
In a letter dated 10/6/19, this charity stated: “Our main focus and expenditure is on providing day to day assistance to those with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. At present, we have only a limited budget for medical research. None of the research grants we have made involve human embryo experimentation.” [#AMRC#]
In a letter dated 17/12/2018, this charity stated: “Currently CHSS do not have a specific human embryo experimentation policy, and we do not specifically exclude human embryo experimentation from the research we fund; so in theory, a project involving human embryo experimentation could be funded by CHSS through its research…
In a letter dated 14/02/2019, this charity states: “CHECT has never funded any research that involves human embryo experimentation and is not currently funding any research in this area. We do not fund other organisations which use human embryos in research. As a result, we do not have a policy…
The Children with Cancer UK website states: “We have never funded any research using human embryos. We have funded some work involving human embryonic stem cells. References to the use of ‘stem cells’ in our research generally refer to blood stem cells rather than embryonic stem cells.” https://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/research/research-faq/ [#AMRC#].
In a letter dated 25/2/2019 this charity stated: “We do not fund any research that uses human embryos, nor do we support any organisations that do this type of research. In almost every case CDRF-funded research uses adult volunteers from TwinsUK: a large group of identical and non-identical twins. Our…
In a letter dated 10/6/19, this charity stated: “I can advise that I am unaware of any connection between the Circulation Foundation and human embryo experimentation, and therefore unable to provide a policy.”[#AMRC#].
Bowel Disease Research Foundation and Bowel and Cancer Research have merged to form Bowel Research UK.In a letter dated 31/1/19, Bowel Disease Research Foundation stated: “with regards to our policy on human embryo experimentation, we do not have our own written policy on this but subscribe to that of the…
In a letter dated 23/1/2019 this charity stated: “We do not have a published policy on the use of human embryos, because the type of research we are engaged in makes it unlikely that this will be an issue for us. No researcher has ever applied to us for funding…
In a letter dated 9/1/2019, this charity stated: “We don’t have a specific policy on human embryo experimentation. However, we have no record of ever having funded any research using human embryos, and we think that the likelihood of funding any such research in the future is slim.”To date we…
In a letter dated 21/12/2018, the Chief Scientific Officer of this charity stated: “I can confirm that we do not support any such research within our current portfolio …I find it difficult to identify any aspect of the work that we support where human embryo experimentation would add benefits over…