McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy Receives Funding to Create Ethics and Governance Resources for the Human Cell Atlas Initiative

Published: 11 June 2019

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Klarman Family Foundation today announced $468,860 in collaborative funding to support ethical...

Bartha Knoppers awarded 2019 Friesen Prize

Published: 19 March 2019

McGill University Professor Bartha Knoppers, a global leader in the study of legal, social and ethical issues related to biomedical research in human genetics and genomics, has been awarded the...

COMMENTARY: ‘CRISPR babies’: What does this mean for science and Canada?

Published: 28 January 2019

In the wake of the announcement in China last November of the first ‘CRISPR babies’, Prof. Bartha Knoppers and researcher Erika Kleiderman from McGill’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have...

Big Data genomics researchers call for cloud support

Published: 9 July 2015

Today in the journal Nature prominent researchers from Canada, Europe and the U.S. have made a powerful call to major funding agencies, asking them to commit to establishing a global genomic data...

Guidelines for human genome editing

Published: 21 January 2016

By Vincent C. AllaireNewsroom Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.

McGill University at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Published: 14 February 2017

Hynes Convention Center - Boston Jumpstarting Neurological Research through Open Science – MNI & McGill University Friday, February 17, 2017, 1:30-2:30 PM/ Room 208

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