�㽶��Ƶ News - Bartha Knoppers

�㽶��Ƶ’s Centre of Genomics and Policy Receives Funding to Create Ethics and Governance Resources for the Human Cell Atlas Initiative

webfull — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:53:05 +0000

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Klarman Family Foundation today announced $468,860 in collaborative funding to support ethical biomedical research and responsible data sharing for the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international effort to map all cells in the human body. The Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) at �㽶��Ƶ will help guide and inform the approach and governance of data sharing to assist participating investigators to collect and share data.

Published: 11 June 2019

Bartha Knoppers awarded 2019 Friesen Prize

webfull — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:41:35 +0000

�㽶��Ƶ Professor Bartha Knoppers, a global leader in the study of legal, social and ethical issues related to biomedical research in human genetics and genomics, has been awarded the 2019 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research by the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FCIHR).

Published: 19 March 2019

COMMENTARY: ‘CRISPR babies’: What does this mean for science and Canada?

webfull — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:44:54 +0000

In the wake of the announcement in China last November of the first ‘CRISPR babies’, Prof. Bartha Knoppers and researcher Erika Kleiderman from McGill’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have published a commentary article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the use of CRISPR gene-editing techniques.

Published: 28 January 2019

�㽶��Ƶ at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

webfull — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:56:07 +0000

Hynes Convention Center - Boston

Jumpstarting Neurological Research through Open Science – MNI & �㽶��Ƶ

Friday, February 17, 2017, 1:30-2:30 PM/ Room 208

Published: 14 February 2017

New vision, model for genomic and clinical data sharing

webfull — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:52:51 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Published: 10 June 2016

Guidelines for human genome editing

webfull — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:09:06 +0000

By Vincent C. Allaire
Newsroom

Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.

Published: 21 January 2016

Big Data genomics researchers call for cloud support

webfull — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:03:49 +0000

Today in the journal Nature prominent researchers from Canada, Europe and the U.S. have made a powerful call to major funding agencies, asking them to commit to establishing a global genomic data commons in the cloud that could be easily accessed by authorized researchers worldwide.

Published: 9 July 2015

Rethinking barriers to big data

webfull — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:56:36 +0000

Published: 19 November 2014