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Which organization owned History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group from 2010 to 2011?
History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ( HoMBRG ) is an academic organisation specialising in recording and publishing the oral history of twentieth and twenty-first century biomedicine . It was established in 1990 as the Wellcome Trusts History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group , and reconstituted in October 2010 as part of the School of History at Queen Mary University of London . History . The project originated as The Wellcome Trusts History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group , and later functioned as the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine . It was originally established at the Royal College of Physicians in 1990 and comprised Sir Christopher Booth ( the Harveian Librarian ) and Professor Tilli Tansey . Its purpose was to devise ways of stimulating historians , scientists & clinicians to discuss , preserve and write the history of recent biomedicine . The Groups activities were originally overseen by a Programme Committee , which included professional historians of medicine , practising scientists and clinicians . From 2000 to 2010 it was a constituent part of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London . In October 2010 it moved to the School of History , Queen Marys University , London . In 2011 the Group received a Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust to embark upon a new project , Makers of Modern Biomedicine . Outputs . An archive of oral and written history , plus videoed interviews , has been compiled by the HoMBRG and consists of three projects : Witness Seminars , Todays Neuroscience , Tomorrows History and SAD at 30 . All material and documentation related to the project is deposited with the Wellcome Library . The resultant publications are open access , and made freely available online via the HoMBRG website , a partnership with the Medical Heritage Library , and iTunes . The topics covered by the archive fall broadly into five themes : clinical genetics , neuroscience , global health and infectious diseases , medical technologies and ethics of research and practice . Resources from the archive are online at The History of Modern Biomedicine Archive and the internet archive Todays Neuroscience , Tomorrows History . The Groups Todays Neuroscience , Tomorrows History initiative ( 2006–2008 ) was funded by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant . It recorded interviews on three themes , neuropharmacology , psychiatry/neuropsychology , and neuroimaging , with twelve neuroscientists , including Geoffrey Burnstock , Salvador Moncada , Michael Rutter and Uta Frith . The Witness Seminars . A series of witness seminars began in 1993 , with regular meetings being held , about four per year . These recorded the voices of those who have contributed , in diverse ways , to the development of modern biomedicine , using oral history methodology . The aim is to make the series widely available for education , research and outreach purposes . The results are published online , with most edited transcripts appearing within 18 months . Witness Seminar participants have included Usama Abdulla , Thomas Brown , Professor Dugald Cameron , Professor Stuart Campbell , John Fleming , Professor John MacVicar , Professor Peter Wells , Dr James Willocks , Sir Douglas Black , Sir John Gray , Sir Raymond Hoffenberg , Dr Sheila Howarth , Professor Peter Lachmann , Sir Patrick Nairne , Professor Sir Stanley Peart , Dr Peter Williams and Professor Anthony PM Coxon . Each witness seminar is transcribed and published by HoMBRG . Recent volumes have been edited by E M Jones , C Overy and E M Tansey . there are 62 Volumes . Titles include The Development of Brain Banks , Narrative Medicine ; Migraine ; The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles ; and The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ( ALSPAC ) The publication of these works are often referred to by specialists in their fields of medical practice . The first two volumes were reviewed in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1999 , with the comment , Few books are so intellectually stimulating or uplifting . Reviewing the series in the British Medical Journal in 2002 , medical historian Irvine Loudon wrote , This is oral history at its best...all the volumes make compulsive reading...they are , primarily , important historical records In 2014 a seminar , chaired by Professor Sir Brian Follett , with Norman Rosenthal and Alfred Lewy , entitled The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder ( SAD ) : 30 Years of SAD was undertaken on the topic of Seasonal Affective Disorder . This resulted in a number of podcasts , and Volume 51 of the Witness Seminar publications . Clips and Conversations . In 2015 the Group began producing oral history interviews with notable scientists and clinicians . This material is made freely available on YouTube ( in the case of video interviews ) and the Groups website , as are the transcripts of both audio and video interviews . Wikidata . As the HoMBRG project came to an end , a Wikimedian in Residence was engaged , to create Wikidata records for the publications and those people interviewed in them . Further reading . - Monoclonal Antibodies to Migraine : Witnesses to Modern Biomedicine , An A-Z Ed . E M Jones and E M Tansey 2014 - The Recent History Of Seasonal Affective Disorder ( SAD ) Edited by C Overy and E M Tansey 2014 - Project to reveal hidden pioneers of modern medicine , http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/62665.html - Renowned medical historian joins Queen Mary , http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/37291.html