The Genome Defense: inside the epic legal battle to determine who owns your DNA ?  Cette bataille juridique, relatée dans un livre à venir,  donnera lieu le 20 octobre prochain à un débat dans le cadre du Petrie-Flom Center for health law policy, biotechnology and bioethics (Université de Harvard. Harvard Law School). “When Chris Hansen, an ACLU lawyer, learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was: How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer—all because Myriad Genetics had patented the famous BRCA genes. So he sued them. In his upcoming book, Jorge Contreras gives us a front-row seat as Hansen and a team of ACLU lawyers, along with a committed group of activists, scientists, and physicians, take their one-in-a-million case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court“.

Participants au débat :

Introduction and Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center; James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; and Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
Jorge L. Contreras, Author and Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law and Biology, Northeastern University School of Law
Jessica Silbey, Professor of Law and Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law

https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/book-talk-the-genome-defense