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On 5 August, LML Research Projects Coordinator Jake Widjaya delivered an opening address to over 200 clinicians at the Paediatric Rehabilitation Service (PRS) Education Day, titled ‘Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Management of Children with Limb Difference’. The event was hosted by the Sydney Children’s Hospital. Reflecting on his life, and assis…

The first ever UK guidelines for the generation and use of stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) in research have been published, drafted by a working group of researchers and practitioners including the Progress Educational Trust, Cambridge Reproduction, and LML director Prof. Kathy Liddell.The previous absence of a regulatory framework for the u…

LML attended a four-day annual retreat in Denmark to mark the start of the Inter-CeBIL Programme, with collaborators from CeBIL at the University of Copenhagen, the Petrie Flom Centre at Harvard, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and other leading academic institutions.The retreat provided an opportunity for collaborators to convene, share …

LML welcomed Dr Julian März from the University of Zurich as a visiting scholar from 7 - 17 May 2024. Dr. Julian W. März, M.D., Ph.D., LL.M., J.D., is a physician, lawyer, and bioethicist, and is currently working as a research fellow at the University of Zurich. His main research interests lie in the areas of biomedical innovation law, research et…

LML member Prof. Mateo Aboy (Director of Research) will present at the 2nd Annual Stanford Responsible Quantum Technology Conference (RQT) on 20th May 2024. Prof. Aboy is a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology. The RQT conference is an interdisciplinary, in-person conference including presentations on quantum mechanics, …

Prof. Julia Powles presents at Annual WYNG-Hatton ConferenceOn 18 April 2024, LML affiliate Prof. Julia Powles presented at the annual WYNG-Hatton Conference. LML welcomed Prof. Powles from the University of Western Australia (UWA), where she is the Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab. Prof. Powles presented on “The case for moving beyond ‘data’”…

On 22 March 2024, Prof. Kathy Liddell met with the Rector (Henrik C. Wegener) and Prorector for Education (Prof. Kristian Cedervall Lauta) of the University of Copenhagen. They celebrated achievements with the Inter-CeBIL research collaboration, and discussed forthcoming plans. Inter-CeBIL is the International Collaborative Biomedical and Innovatio…

On Thursday 21 March 2024, LML hosted the Baron de Lancey lecture, which was delivered by Prof. Sir Jonathan Montgomery (University College London).The Baron de Lancey Lecture is an annual public lecture hosted by the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. It provides distinguished lawyers with a…

The recent ‘De Novo’ pathway is a regulatory initiative of the FDA. It offers a less burdensome path to market than previous regulation, which encourages innovation for moderate-risk medical devices. Dr Ariel Stern and LML members Prof. Mateo Aboy and Dr Cristina Crespo evaluate the changes in their recent article.The three compare two US FDA’s reg…

As the Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow in Law, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Ira’s research project will focus on the ‘ethics of care’. The ethics of care – a moral theory with feminist origins that emerged in the early 1980s – emphasizes that caring actions are morally valuable. Given that actions carried out within the medical context are prima…

In January 2024, LML director Prof. Kathy Liddell presented at a Public Dialogue for the Governance of Research using Stem Cell Based Human Embryo Models (G-SCBEM). Prof. Liddell provided a brief presentation to support the participants’ deliberation, sharing her thoughts on some of the important considerations for a governance model. During the pr…

A more sustainable level of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be achieved by governing it as a socio-ecological challenge, Dr Steven Hoffman and LML Senior Research Associate Dr Isaac Weldon argue. In their paper, they look at antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as the outcome of the relationship between human societies and invisible microbial worlds. …

A new book co-edited by LML professors and Inter-CeBil collaborators provides innovative and practical suggestions for improving the law and ethics of data sharing in the health sciences. The main focus is the variety of regulations in this domain, including clinical trial transparency, trade secrecy, data access, AI training data, and health data …

After a busy successful year in 2022-23, we are delighted to share LML's Annual Report.

LML and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held their joint annual Christmas party at Millworks on Monday 11 December 2023.It was a fantastic evening for the members of both centres, filled with laughter, quizzes and Christmas crackers!