BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250824T025427EDT-5924JvucDh@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250824T065427Z DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join 9I’s Research Group on Health Law (RG HL) in welcoming Dr. Bartha Maria Knoppers\, full professor\, Canadian Res earch Chair in Law and Medicine\, and the Director of the Centre of Genomi cs and Policy\, as a speaker at the annual conference of the RGHL. Her pre sentation is entitled\, 'Tomorrow's Biolaw: Judicial Plasticity and Digita l Complexity?'\n\nAbstract\n\nFrom the Hippocratic oath to the Nuremberg C ode\, the Declaration of Helsinki\, and the Universal Declaration on Bioet hics and Human Rights\, biomedical advances have been filtered through and interpreted against these ethical norms. Moreover\, the focus of scientif ic research has moved beyond individuals\, clinical trials\, and rare dise ases to also include whole populations and communities under the banner of serving group interests and to better understand the evolution and future our human species. Citizens are being asked to contribute to ongoing inte rnational mapping of the human genome\, to national biobanks and populatio n studies that serve as resources for future unspecified research for othe rs. Indeed\, alongside traditional discovery science has emerged a new inf rastructure science. Yet\, also percolating are bioengineering\, gene edit ing and regenerative medicine efforts that challenge classical legal duali sms and divides such as person-property\, animal-human\, or living-dead. H ow plastic is or will be the framing of the “legal” human?\n\nParallel to the legal challenges raised by this new biology and infrastructure science are those of information technologies and their ensuing probabilistic\, d igital complexity. Stratification based on population data may well serve to ensure targeted resource allocation and thus rescue the ongoing sustain ability of our universal health care systems\, but currently\, the use of polygenic risk scores may be misleading. Moreover\, treatments\, drugs and devices premised on databases that are not representative of different an cestries and of human diversity are equally harmful. Contribution by all c itizens to variant databases is essential to their use in diagnoses and in terpretation but where and on whom does the responsibility to contribute o ne’s health data to ensure quality and safety lie? Quid\, the algorithms t hat feed m-health and medical devices? Finally\, clinical genomic testing is already in use in the health care setting in some countries but raises the issue of potential duties to family members and data privacy and confi dentiality. Data may be the new prevention\, the new treatment\, but can w e accept its dynamic\, complex and “epigenetic” nature?\n\nBio\n\nBartha M aria Knoppers\, PhD (Comparative Medical Law) is Full Professor\, Canada R esearch Chair in Law and Medicine\, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at 9I. Sh e was the Chair of the Ethics and Governance Committee of the Internationa l Cancer Genome Consortium (2009-2017) and Co-Chair of the Regulatory and Ethics Workstream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (2013-201 9).  She also helped draft the OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governan ce (2017)\, was appointed to the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing (2020)\, and currently co-chairs the Ethics Working Group of the Human Cell Atlas (2018-2022).  She holds four Doctorates Honoris Causa and is a Fellow of the AAAS\, the Hastings Center of Bioethics\, the Canadian Academy Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.  She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec\, and recipient of the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research ( 2019)\, the Till and McCulloch Award for Science Policy (2020) and the Lif etime Achievement Award\, Canadian Bioethics Society (2021).\n\nUne attest ation de participation sera remise sur demande aux membres du Barreau du Q uébec et de la Chambre des notaires.\n\nPlaces are limited. Please confirm your presence by filling out this form.\n DTSTART:20220119T211500Z DTEND:20220119T224500Z LOCATION:Moot Court (NCDH Room 100) SUMMARY:Tomorrow’s Biolaw: Judicial Plasticity and Digital Complexity? URL:/law/fr/channels/event/tomorrows-biolaw-judicial-p lasticity-and-digital-complexity-344203 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR