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 biomedical research and responsible data sharing for the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international effort to map all cells in the human body. The Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) at McGill University will help guide and inform the approach and governance of data sharing to assist participating investigators to collect and share data.
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Published on: 11 Jun 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 2019 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research by the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FCIHR).
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Published on: 19 Mar 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 published a commentary article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the use of CRISPR gene-editing techniques.
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Published on: 28 Jan 2019
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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Published on: 14 Feb 2017
Published on: 10 Jun 2016
By Vincent C. Allaire
Newsroom
Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.
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Published on: 21 Jan 2016
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 commons in the cloud that could be easily accessed by authorized researchers worldwide.
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Published on: 9 Jul 2015
