Public Lecture: Myles Jackson (Director of Science and Technology
Studies, Polytechnic Institute of New York University), "Intellectual
Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Patent", Monday 13 June, 17:30. Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul
Building, University of York.
The closing event of the White Rose Consortium IPBio Project will be a
lecture from the historian of physics and molecular biology Myles
Jackson, who testified for the ACLU in the case that led to the
overturning of the BRCA1 gene patent. The lecture will be hosted at the
University of York. A video of the event will be added to the IPBio
Network’s homepage, www.ipbio.org, shortly afterwards.
The event is free but if you would like to attend please contact Berris
Charnley, Project Administrator, at [log in to unmask]
The IPBio Network now hosts a blog, with an inaugural post by Project
member Grahame Dutfield (University of Leeds) on 'Are life forms (still)
inherently unpatentable?” www.ipbio.org/IPBioBlog/?p=38
Please circulate as you see fit.
All the best,
Berris Charnley
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Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds,
Leeds, LS2 9JT.
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