Bartha Maria Knoppers 2011

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine (Tier 1: 2001 – ).  She is Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University.  She held the Chair d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France: 2006-2008) and was named Distinguished Visiting Scientist (Netherlands Genomics Initiative) (2009 – ).  She is Chair of the Ethics Working Party of the International Stem Cell Forum (2006 – ), Co-Chair of the Sampling/ELSI Committee of the 1000 Genomes Project (2008 – ) and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) (2009- ).  She is an Officer of the Order of Canada.