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CLG Annual Report 2016-2017

    The Centre for Law and Genetics has released its second annual report. It outlines the CLG’s recent achievements, project updates and new research directions and collaborative efforts. This year it also includes a list of CLG-authored publications, which … Continue reading

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New Publication: Is Australia Well Equipped to Deal with Future Clinical Trials

Dr Lisa Eckstein and Professor Don Chalmers, recently published an article in the Journal of Law and Medicine that was prompted by concerns that arose after the French Biotrial (more about that here, here and here) that “left one person … Continue reading

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CLG Workshop: Genome Editing

On November 13-14 2016, the CLG hosted its second workshop for the year, centered around current issues in genome editing. This issues were triggered by an increase in genetic manipulation using CRISPR/Cas technology. This has caused an explosion of research … Continue reading

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CLG Workshop: Material Transfer Agreement Nov 8-9

The Centre for Law and Genetics hosted a small, targeted workshop with international and national experts and key players in the Material Transfer Agreement (MTAs) area. This workshop canvassed the original concerns borne of material transfer agreements. The key concern … Continue reading

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Dianne Nicol Presents at the OECD ‘Genome Editing in an International Context’

Professor Dianne Nicol was invited to participate in an OECD workshop on ‘Gene Editing in an International Context: Scientific, Economic and Social Issues across Sectors‘ held in Ottawa, Canada on the 29th and 30th of September 2016. At the workshop, … Continue reading

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New publication: Has the biobank bubble burst? Withstanding the challenges for sustainable biobanking in the digital era

A new collaborative CLG publication, discussing the future of biobanking has recently been published in BMC Medical Ethics, and is available open access – ‘Has the biobank bubble burst? Withstanding the challenges for sustainable biobanking in the digital era‘. This … Continue reading

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McWhirter Presentations – 13th World Congress of Bioethics in Edinburgh

Earlier this month, Dr Rebekah McWhirter presented at two meetings in Edinburgh: the 13th World Congress of Bioethics, and a Satellite Symposium hosted by ELSI2.0 and EuCelLEX. The Congress took place 14-17 June, hosted by the International Association of Bioethics, … Continue reading

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Professor Nicol – Material Transfer Presentation for the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at Cambridge University

On her recent trip to the UK, Professor Dianne Nicol met with colleagues at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at Cambridge University which enabled her to present on some work of the CLG’s Material Transfer Team. In particular, … Continue reading

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Ethics Review Equivalency (ERE) Task Team Workshop

The Ethics Review Equivalency (ERE) Task Team of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Regulatory and Ethics Working Group met in Montreal, Canada in early May for a two-day workshop. The group, recently published a paper in the ethics review equivalency … Continue reading

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CLG Professors Nicol and Otlowski Welcomed as AAL Fellows

On the evening of 27 April in Hobart, the President of the Australian Academy of Law Kevin Lindgren welcomed six new Tasmanian fellows to the Academy. The University of Tasmania, Faculty of Law was well represented with Professor Gino Dal Pont along … Continue reading

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