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 Association of Medical Research Charities, of which we are a member…I have to say, if the law was to change at some point in the future it is difficult to imagine that we would ever receive applications for something like this. Most of our grants focus on the practical aspects of care and treatment, generally in a surgical setting, and as such this is not a subject we have ever previously considered nor expect to consider.”
In an undated letter, Bowel and Cancer Research stated: “We have never had cause to fund any research that uses human embryos as the field is so tightly regulated and the type of research that we fund uses other techniques, primarily human tissue and adult cell lines. If any of the research we fund uses stem cells, they are derived from adult tissue and not from embryos…In terms of funding organisations that carry out such research, in all honesty it would be hard to say…” [#AMRC#].