20 Jul 2017
David Erdos contributes to safeguarding academic research in new Data Protection framework
David Erdos, a member of LML and incoming Deputy Director of CIPIL, has been engaged in a variety of activities during 2016-17 which have been aimed at ensuring that all types of academic research are effectively safeguarded when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018. Much of this work has focused on the go…
7 Jul 2017
Dr Fenton-Glynn consulted by the media in relation to the Charlie Gard case
Over the last week, LML Member Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn has been quoted in a variety of media sources and conducted a radio interview on the case of Charlie Gard. Gard is an eleven month old infant born with a genetic disorder which leaves him unable to breathe unaided and with severe brain damage. The London hospital treating him have asked permissi…
7 Jul 2017
Dr Scherpe delivers plenary lecture at the Academy of European Law on the legal status of transexual, transgender and intersex persons
On May 29th and 30th 2017, a seminar for university professors and law lecturers took place at the Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany. The general topic of the seminar was ‘Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law’, and Dr Scherpe delivered a lecture on ‘The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons’, based on his book of …
7 Jul 2017
Dr Liddicoat presents at Oxford Precision Medicine Conference
On June 13th, Dr Liddicoat presented at the conference Intellectual Property, Ethics and the Market in the Era of Personalised Medicine, held at St Anne’s College, Oxford. His talk was titled ‘The Phantom Menace of Gene Patents Arises?’, and the abstract can be found below. Dr Liddicoat and colleagues are now in the midst of translating the talk in…
12 Jun 2017
Colm McGrath appointed to a Lectureship at King's College London
LML is happy to announce that Colm McGrath has been appointed to a Lectureship at the King's College London Dickson Poon School of Law. He will take up the position in January 2018. At KCL, he looks forward to contributing to the School’s teaching in tort law and medical law and to continuing his research into the modern, historical and comparativ…
12 May 2017
Kathy Liddell participates in CSaP Senior Policy Fellows Meeting on Genetic Technologies
Kathy Liddell, Director of the LML, was invited to participate in the fourteenth Policy Leaders Fellowship Roundtable organised by the Centre for Science and Policy which will take place at Trinity College Cambridge on 12 May 2017, chaired by Lord Wilson of Dinton, former UK Cabinet Secretary.The subject for discussion on 12 May was “advances in ge…
27 Apr 2017
Dr. Liddell appointed to Expert Board for “Study on the Economic Impact of SPCs”
Dr Kathy Liddell has been appointed to the Expert Board for Copenhagen Economics’ successful proposal to the European Commission (DG GROW) to prepare its “Study on the economic impact of SPCs, Pharmaceutical incentives and rewards in Europe”.The overall objective of the project is to shed light on the effects of IP-related incentives (in particular…
27 Apr 2017
Prof. Knoppers and Dr. Yotova to speak on the topic of gene editing
On 25th May 2017, LML Visiting Scholar Prof. Bartha Knoppers and LML Member Dr. Rumiana Yotova will be speaking on the topic of gene editing. These presentations will be given as part of an event organised by the PHG Foundation:'Gene editing: from innovative science to effective policy'. (See corresponding listing in LML Events. Tickets can be obt…
21 Mar 2017
Dr. Powles publishes ‘Google DeepMind and Healthcare in an Age of Algorithms’.
Dr. Powles publishes ‘Google DeepMind and Healthcare in an Age of Algorithms’. A new study co-authored by LML member Dr. Julia Powles and The Economist’s Hal Hodson examines in detail Google DeepMind’s entry into the healthcare space. The paper, published in the journal Health and Technology, critically analyses the architecture, communication, and…
30 Dec 2016
Dr Liddicoat and Dr Liddell publish Workshop Report on Open Innovation with Large Bioresources
On December 22 2016, a report on 'Open Innovation with Large Bioresources' was published by Dr Liddell and Dr Liddicoat.This report is from a Cambridge Workshop on the openness of large bioresources in synthetic biology and genomics (e.g. the 100,000 Genomes Project), held on 28 January 2016. Research in SB and Gx depends on the use of collections …
17 Dec 2016
Workshop on “Diseased Kidney Transplantation”: legal issues surrounding 'extended criteria' donors
In July 2007, the administrative guideline of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan introduced a new clause prohibiting doctors from transplanting a “diseased kidney” except as part of clinical research. Several patient groups and some legal scholars support this position, while other legal scholars assert that “diseased kidney transp…
25 Nov 2016
Dr Erdos delivers WYNG-Hatton Lecture: “Data Protection in an Age of User-Generated Content”
The majority personal information available online is now in some sense user-generated and most of this is subsequent to further processing by service providers pushing, structuring and aggregating the content. The new ecosystem raises unprecedented challenges for the data protection framework both as regards the safeguarding of users themselves an…
15 Nov 2016
Sculpting evolution? A multidisciplinary workshop explores regulatory, legal and ethical perspectives of gene drive.
Gene drives are natural genetic systems that enable genes to spread rapidly within entire populations. By harnessing the power of these systems, society could significantly impact evolution. Their use thus raises difficult social, legal, ethical and environmental questions.While gene drive systems do exist in nature (and some have already been use…
6 Nov 2016
Workshop on the Future of Genomic Medicine Patents in Europe and the US
The decision by the United States Supreme Court to deny the petition for review in Ariosa Diagnostics v Sequenom placed the patenting of diagnostic tests to the forefront of medical policy, bringing into sharp focus the potential conflict between facilitating access to the latest diagnostic techniques and encouraging invention and commercialisation…
2 Nov 2016
Festival of Ideas: Is earlier necessarily better?
On 24th October a packed audience gathered at the McCrum lecture theatre in the heart of Cambridge to attend the Festival of Ideas event "Is earlier necessarily better?" To our knowledge this was the first ever cancer-themed event to feature in the Festival of Ideas, which generally focuses more on the arts and social sciences. The premise of the e…
