Sandy Starr is Deputy Director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), a charity that improves choices for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions.
For 20 years, Sandy has worked with PET to improve public, professional and policy understanding of assisted conception, genomics and embryo/stem cell research. He has addressed MPs in the UK Parliament on the subject of human embryo research, and he worked closely on the successful campaign to change UK law to permit the use of mitochondrial donation in treatment.
Sandy was Project Consultant for the UK’s Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models, published jointly by PET and Cambridge Reproduction. He has also devised PET exhibits and activities for the Science Museum in London – exploring human/animal hybrids, stem-cell-based embryo models and human augmentation – and he has written and lectured about genome editing for the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds.