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Safer Medicines Trust organised a very successful conference at the House of Lords

On 20th October, Professor the Lord McColl, shadow Spokesperson for Health, hosted a conference entitled:
Human tissues are invaluable for medical research – how can we make them more available?

You can play all the presentations and hear the Radio 4 interviews here

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