Bartha Maria Knoppers

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD. Is Professor Emeritus, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and Founding Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University. Currently, she the Chair of the Ethics and Governance Committee of the ICGC (2009-2017); Board Member, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (2013-); Galton Lecturer (2017); and, Co-Chair, Ethics Working Group of the Human Cell Atlas (2018-).  She was appointed to the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing (2020) and officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec. She holds five Doctorates Honoris Causa and is  fellow  of the:  Hastings Center (bioethics) (2000); American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002); Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2005) and the  Royal Society of Canada (2017). She was awarded the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research (2019); Till and McCulloch Award for science policy (2020); and Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Bioethics Society (2021).