I am happy to announce our “Global Genes, Local Concerns Symposium on Legal, Ethical and Scientific Challenges in International Biobanking” to be held at the University of Copenhagen (DK) on 16 March 2017, 08:00-18:30. Among the many prominent experts speaking at this conference we find the PFC’s very own Glenn Cohen and several speakers with a PFC “history” or close PFC links, such as Bartha Knoppers, Tim Caulfield, Nicholson Price and Jeff Skopek.
A detailed program and further information is available here and here.
This Symposium marks the final phase of the Global Genes-Local Concerns project. In accordance with the goals of this large cross-faculty project, the Symposium deals with legal, ethical and scientific challenges in cross-national biobanking and translational exploitation. Leading international experts and invited speakers will discuss how national biobanks contribute to translational research, what opportunities and challenges regulations present for translational use of biobanks, how inter-biobank coordination and collaboration occurs on various levels, and how academic and industrial exploitation, ownership and IPR issues could be addressed and facilitated. Special emphasis will be laid on challenges and opportunities in addressing regulatory barriers to biobank research and the translation of research results, while at the same time securing ethical legitimacy and societal interests.
These issues will be dealt with in 4 main sessions covering (1) BIG DATA AND MODES OF COLLABORATION; (2) PATIENT INVOLVEMENT; (3) TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE & TECH TRANSFER, as well as (4) GUIDELINES & GOOD GOVERNANCE.
Speakers:
- Bartha Knoppers, Mc Gill University (Canada)
- Glenn Cohen, Harvard University (US)
- Timo Minssen, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Tim Caulfield, University of Alberta (Can)
- Michael Madison, University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Jeff Skopek, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Brian Clark, Director, Human Biosample Governance, Novo Nordisk A/S (DK)
- Jane Kaye, University of Oxford (UK)
- Anne Cambon-Thomsen, INSERM, Toulouse / CNRS Director (Fr)
- Klaus Høyer, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Aaro M. Tupasela, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- M. B. Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Åsa Hellstadius, Stockholm University (Sweden)
- Peter Yu, A&M Texas University (US)
- Esther van Zimmeren, University of Antwerp/Leuven (Belgium)
- Nicholson Price, University of Michigan Law School (US)
- Karine Sargsyan, BBMRI/Head of Biobanking-Graz (Austria)
- Eva Ortega-Paino, BBMRI, Lund University (Sweden)
- Nana Kongsholm, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Klemens Kappel, University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Helen Yu, University of Copenhagen (DK).
For participation in the event please use this registration form no later than Friday, 10 March 2017, 12:00 at the latest.
We are looking very much forward to welcoming you in wonderful Copenhagen on 16 March 2017.
Best wishes/
Timo Minssen