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                                                                      A chapter co-authored by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) and Dr Simon Ravenscroft has been published in Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft (eds.) Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property (Cambridge U…

LML’s evidence-based IP research group is pleased to announce that it has published another article in Nature Biotechnology.The paper titled -- ‘One year after Vanda, are diagnostics patents transforming into methods of treatment to overcome Mayo-based rejections?’ -- examines the effect of the decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., v. West-Ward P…

Unfortunately, due to present public health concerns, the 2020 Baron de Lancey Lecture has been cancelled.In 2018, the International Association for Athletic Federations enacted regulations that prevent female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone from competing in some athletics events. The validity of these regulations was challenge…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest public health emergencies of our time.AMR is an evolutionary process whereby microbes —like bacteria, fungi, and viruses— acquire resistance to the antimicrobial substances we have long depended upon to stop their spread, including antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals. The likelihood of drug…

On 9-10 December 2019, Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) participated in the Global Forum on Intellectual Property, Access to Medicines and Innovation. Oranised by the South Centre and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Global Forum brought together policy makers and leading academic figures to examine how intellectual property …

Dr Daisy Cheung (LML collaborator based at Hong Kong's Centre for Medical Ethics and Law) and Dr Elizabeth Fistein (LML Affiliate, Cambridge Clinical School) have co-authored an article with others titled, Articulating future directions of law reform for compulsory mental health admission and treatment in Hong Kong . The article explores four possi…

Following the hugely successful CeBIL Symposium 2019: Legal Innovation to Support the Development of Antimicrobial Drugs, LML was delighted to host CeBIL colleagues Prof. Timo Minssen and Dr Jakob Wested for an extended visit. Building on the momentum of the Symposium, we consolidated findings and feedback from the event, and planned how the ideas …

LML would like to congratulate our close collaborators at the PHG Foundation on the publication of two reports.'Regulating algorithms in healthcare: The GDPR and IVDR in practice', details the findings from a 2018 multidisciplinary workshop (of the same name). Attended by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director), Dr Jeff Skopek (LML Deputy Director), Prof. …

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences is growing!We are delighted to announce the following appointments:Jennifer Anderson joined LML in October 2019 as a Research Associate. She will work closely with Dr Jeffrey Skopek (LML Deputy Director) on 'Liability for Harms Caused by the Use of AI in Healthcare', a research project funded by a Well…

From 17-18 September 2019, Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of LML), Prof. Dianne Nicol (LML Visiting Scholar), and Matt Jordan (Collaborative Research Projects Co-ordinator) attended “Collaborative platforms for personalized health: realizing the potential of genomics and biobanks”.This workshop, organised by OECD in collaboration with Vinnova (the Swed…

On Wednesday 25 September, Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of LML) attended 'What's the value of real world evidence in the context of the life sciences industrial strategy?', a CSaP policy workshop organised jointly with the Department for Health and Social Care, and the Office for Life Sciences.Attended by delegates from academia, policy, the NHS, reg…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) seeks to appoint a highly motivated and independent Research Associate to join a two-year research project on artificial intelligence and liability.The project will focus in particular on the assignment of liability for harms caused by the use of machine learning algorithms in healthcare. There a…

On 13 June 2019, Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) will participate in a workshop on Medical Ethics and Compassionate Use in the UK.The workshop, organised by Roche Products Ltd. and facilitated by the Pembroke Corporate Partnership Programme, aims to design a consistent and sustainable approach for responding to requests to supply medicines to patie…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (in the School of Clinical Medicine) seek to appoint a Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to work on a project exploring the intersection between the law of negligence and the practice of medical diagnosis.The project will investigate and cr…

LML is delighted to announce that registration has opened for the CeBIL Annual Symposium 2019: Legal Innovation to Support the Development of Antimicrobial Drugs.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to expand, raising the risk of a future public health crisis. Numerous conferences have been organised to address the scientific challenges of AMR,…