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.

Classified as: Bartha Knoppers, centre of genomics and policy, Klarman Family Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Human Cell Atlas, science and technology
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Published on: 11 Jun 2019

McGill University has helped develop a global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enhance sharing of BRCA1/BRCA2 data.

Classified as: genomics, centre of genomics and policy, Cancer
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Published on: 9 Jan 2019

By Vincent C. Allaire
Newsroom

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

Classified as: Bartha Knoppers, health and lifestyle, erika kleiderman, rosario isasi, gene editing, centre of genomics and policy, CRISPR
Published on: 21 Jan 2016
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