Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences): Interdisciplinary research at the cutting-edge of the biosciences.

Durham, UK
Joined May 2012
Welcome to Day 1 of our celebration of 10 years on Twitter! #bioethics #biolaw #environmental_health #human_health @durham_uni @DurhamLawSchool
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🥳 Thank you very much everyone for joining us for today's CELLS seminar ‘Chinese Legal Response to the Shared Motherhood Model in Lesbians’ Family-making – Prof Chunyan Ding’. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed this session. We hope to see you soon at our future events!
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Correction to the below, Prof Goldberg's X handle is now: @ProfRSGoldberg
CELLS member @Richard05184110 has spent over 20 years analysing Vaccine Damage Scheme Reform. See these news items and links for information on the latest calls for his expertise.
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Thank you very much to everyone for joining us yesterday for Dr Jaime Lindsey’s seminar ‘Reimagining the Court of Protection: Participation, Mediation and Best Interests Disputes’. What a fabulous paper, we hope you thoroughly enjoyed the session.
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Our next seminar - this afternoon at 2pm, online. See here for full details and to register: durham.ac.uk/research/instit…
Really looking forward to welcoming Dr Jaime Lindsey this afternoon for our next online @DurhamCELLS seminar. Jaime will be talking about ‘Reimagining the Court of Protection: Participation, Mediation and Best Interests Disputes’. Open to all, 2pm.
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It was great to see so many of you at today's CELLS seminar The Decriminalisation of Euthanasia in Colombia – Is It All about Dignified Death? Thanks very much to Eduardo Diaz Amado for this thought-provoking and insightful paper!
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@ShaunPattinson @DurhamLawSchool provides the second piece in our Reflections on Writing ✍️ series. Thanks to Shaun for his thoughts. doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76iRS…
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Please join us for an online CELLS seminar next Monday 24 February 2–3pm: The decriminalisation of euthanasia in Colombia – is it all about dignified death? (durham.ac.uk/research/instit…)
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Please join us for an online CELLS seminar next Monday 24 February 2–3pm: The decriminalisation of euthanasia in Colombia – is it all about dignified death? (durham.ac.uk/research/instit…)
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Our member @ProfRSGoldberg, who is a leading expert on the law applying to vaccination, is presenting to all All-Party Parliamentary Group today!
In Westminster today giving keynote speech to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery (APPG) on reform of the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme (VDPS). appgpandemic.org
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To get one positive book review from a top scholar is a gift. I’m bouncing with happiness to discover that my book Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (funded by a major fellowship from @LeverhulmeTrust) has now received a third.
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I have now submitted the 7th edition of Medical Law and Ethics to the publisher (@thomsonreuters). This revision has been a massive endeavour and taken over 2 years. I’ll post a summary of the (huge number of) revisions and updates once I have a publication date.
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We are proud to congratulate our colleague, @Zahra_Jaff3r, on the successful examination of her PhD. Zahra's PhD presents a new understanding of public interest decision-making in healthcare and was undertaken at the University of Edinburgh. 🥳🎉 #AcademicExcellence #Biolaw
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Zahra's thesis was supervised by @GraemeLaurie & @EdwardSDove, and examined by Oliver Quick & @annie_sorbie.
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Durham CELLS retweeted
This morning our co-director @ShaunPattinson is presenting his research at the workshop: Transplantation Medicine in the Paediatric Context at Pembroke College, Oxford.
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