File relating to the proposed Technology Foresight Challenge project 'Novel opportunities for genetic and biomolecular engineering in animals'

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1320/2/2/6
• Dates of Creation:June 1995-March 1996
• Physical Description:
  1 file

• Scope and Content

  Contains: papers relating to meetings within Roslin Institute on the subjects of nuclear transfer and totipotent cells; correspondence between Ian Wilmut and the Office of Science and Technology, guidance documents about the Technology Foresight Challenge award scheme, Ian Wilmut's notes from discussions and meetings and two copies of the project proposal.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  This proposal was submitted to the Office of Science and Technology in November 1995 under the Technology Foresight Challenge award scheme. The proposal was in collaboration with the Moredun Institute and the universities of Edinburgh and Durham and in association with PPL, Imutran, Genus and the Pig Improvement Company. The project proposed to increase the efficiency of the nuclear transfer technique and establish procedures for gene targeting in sheep. The proposal was not invited to proceed to a full bid submission.

• Subjects

  Animal genetic engineering

• Corporate Names

  Office of Science and Technology ( non-ministerial government department of the British government)