Full Name
Bartha Knoppers
Job title
Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy
University/company
McGill University
Speaker bio
Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD. (Comparative Medical Law), Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University. Chair: Ethics and Governance Committee of the ICGC (2009-2017); Co-Chair; Regulatory and Ethics Workstream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH Co-Founder) (2013-2019); Galton Lecturer (2017); Co-Chair, Ethics Working Group of the Human Cell Atlas (2018-2020). Appointed to the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing (2020). Officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec. Awards: four Doctorates Honoris Causa, Fellow Hastings Center (bioethics) (2000); American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002); Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2005); Royal Society of Canada (2017); Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research (2019); Till and McCulloch Award for science policy (2020); and Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Bioethics Society (2021).
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