Team:Manchester/HP/Silver

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HP Silver

Throughout our project we addressed a variety of Human Practices issues and took into account each stakeholder’s knowledge, experience and opinion to direct our project design. All experimental decisions were guided by intense interactions with the public and important stakeholders interested in raising alcohol awareness. This has enabled the AlcoPatch to be refined, redesigned and progress in cohesion with the public needs and interests.


iGEM Human Practices Silver Criteria 2016:


"Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated,and addressed ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights issues in the context of your project. Your activity could center around education , public engagement , public policy issues, public perception, or other activities"


Education: Before we began our project we took part in British Science Week. We introduced school pupils to the concepts of synthetic biology, synthetic chemistry and conventional farming as three alternative methods of producing chemical compounds.


Public Engagement: Our team has attended an array of conferences engaging with a diverse range of audiences; [British Science Week], [Microbiology Society Annual Conference], [European Science Open Forum]and the [iGEM UK Meet Up].We were able to gain feedback from academics, specialists, the general public, and other iGEM teams. Importantly, our project was featured twice by a local newspaper, [Manchester Evening News], which allowed us to reach-out globally. Anna Russell, from [Heart FM] (a national Radio) contacted our team and discussed the possible applications of the AlcoPatch whilst on air, as people from all-over the UK had the chance to learn about the AlcoPatch.


Public Policy Issues:During the project we spoke with the major public services involved in developing alcohol awareness strategies, [the NHS] and [the Police]. Through explaining and discussing our project with these representatives from the public sector, we learnt how our AlcoPatch would need to be designed to be beneficial to the local community. We raised the issue of patenting our project with an IP Attorney from [Ward Hadaway], who directed us to a patent attorney from [Venner Shipley]. This gave us insight into the business-related policy aspects of the production of the AlcoPatch.