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The United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Inventorship Guidance on AI-assisted inventions marks a crucial step in the evolving role of AI in the patent system, as outlined in a recent article co-authored by LML members. The article is published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, and co-authored by Prof. Kathy Lidd…

On Thursday 20 March 2025, LML hosted the Baron de Lancey lecture, which was delivered by Prof. Kimberly D. Krawiec (University of Virginia).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 forum …

We were delighted to welcome Dr Eric Ip from Hong Kong University to the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) at the Cambridge Faculty of Law. Dr Ip visited Cambridge this March as part of the Herbert Smith Freehills Global Visitor Programme.During his visit, Dr. Ip engaged in a series of discussions and with our faculty and researchers…

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Bill Cornish Scholar, Zihan Ni, who has embarked on a PhD focusing on 'Reforming the Anglo-American pharmaceutical patent law in the age of AI.' This scholarship is made possible through the generous contributions to the Bill Cornish Memorial Fund, established in memory of Professor Bill Cornish.Professor …

On Friday 29 November 2024, a workshop was held on the governance and liability of medical AI. This event, organised by the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences and the PHG Foundation, was part of the Inter-CeBIL Programme led by Professor Timo Minssen.The workshop brought together experts in law, policy, clinical practice, and artificial int…

On 12 September 2024, LML Senior Research Associate Isaac Weldon and LML Director Prof Kathy Liddell hosted the GLEAN (Gathering Lessons from Environmental Governance for Antimicrobial Resistance) Workshop at Gonville & Caius College. The workshop explored strategies from environmental governance that can be adapted and applied to improve antimicro…

Unifying goals to mobilise global action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are crucial for protecting lives now and in the future. This is the key message in a new commentary by LML Senior Research Associate, Dr Isaac Weldon, and co-authors. The Bellagio Group for Accelerating AMR Action met in April 2024 to develop the ‘ambitious but achievable’ 1…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses at least nine distinct collective action problems, according to a new article by LML members Dr. Isaac Weldon, Prof. Kathy Liddell, Dr. Stephanie Palmer, and Prof. Timo Minssen. AMR causes over 1.27 million deaths annually, making it one of today's most urgent health threats. Despite this urgency, large-scale gl…

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…