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Progress Educational Trust Progress Educational Trust was set up in May 1992 but it had its beginnings in late 1985, as a lobby group set up to oppose any restrictions on research using human embryos - the PROGRESS Campaign for Research into Human Reproduction. Alistair Kent of the Genetic Interest Group is on the Progress Advisory Committee. Like the Genetic Interest Group, PROGRESS is a 'pro genetics' lobby holding that genetic technologies 'offer an alternative to those who are unable - because of infertility or because they have a genetic disease in their family - to consider normal methods of having children.' According to its former Director, 'our organisation exists to make sure that access to new technologies is not restricted by parliament or by doctors'. BioNews has its own website - BioNews.org.uk - which was funded by an educational grant from the The Editor-in-chief of BioNews until 2005 was Juliet Tizzard who started as the Administrator at PROGRESS in April 1998 and went on to become its Director, before leaving to become the Policy Manager of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Tizzard is part of the LM network which argues 'for interfering with nature at every opportunity in order to improve the human condition' via infertility treatment and genetic engineering. John Gillott who works for the Genetic Interest Group which, in turn, works closely with PROGRESS, is also part of the same network. Both Gillott and Tizzard have been on the staff of the online clinical genetics resource Genepool .
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