Title
"GM Nation? The results of the public debate - 'Don't use them as a referendum', argues Vivian Moses"
Reference
BURK/06/05/14
Production date
-12-2003 - -12-2003
Creator
Extent
1 report
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Associated people and organisations
- Burke, DerekBiographyBiography
(b. 1930), Biological Scientist and Vice-Chancellor
Professor Derek Burke, born on the 13th February, holds a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University and honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen and UEA. After research fellowships at Yale and then at the National Institute for Medical Research he lectured at the University of Aberdeen for ten years before appointment as Founding Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick in 1969. From 1982 to 1986 he was Scientific Director of Allelix Incorporated, Toronto, Canada, before returning to the UK in 1987 to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.
Burke was chair of the UK regulatory committee on GM foods (Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes - ACNFP) for almost a decade (1988-97), during which time the first GM foods were approved for the UK. As chairman, Burke was responsible for advising the Government on the safety of genetically modified foods and he has been very active in the subsequent debate about the safety, efficacy, and ethics of the use of genetically modified foods, and the crops from which they are derived.
As a member of the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of England, Burke chaired a Working Party on the social and ethical issues of cyberspace and was a member of the Archbishops Medical Ethics Advisory Group. Burke is also a former president of Christians in Science. He has published over 120 scientific papers on the antiviral substance interferon and on the molecular biology of animal viruses.
- Moses, VivianBiographyBiography
(1928 - 2017) Professor of Microbiology
Moses was a Professor of Microbiology at London's Queen Mary College for 22 years, where he started his involvement with the field of biotechnology. He jointly edited a major textbook on Biotechnology and co-authored around 190 original research papers, reviews, articles and books. In the beginning of his career, Vivian remained at UCL as a junior lecturer until he was assigned to a post-doctoral appointment joining a research group on photosynthesis with Melvin Calvin at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1999 he chaired CropGen with a vision to boost public understanding of biotechnology.
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