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91ÉçÇø’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

91ÉçÇø 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 91ÉçÇø’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have...

91ÉçÇø 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 & 91ÉçÇø Friday, February 17, 2017, 1:30-2:30 PM/ Room 208

Guidelines for human genome editing

Published: 21 January 2016

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

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...

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