September 17-19, 2019 – Ottawa<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n Professor Bartha Knoppers, 2019 Henry G. Friesen International Prizewinner, will deliver the 2019 Friesen Lecture at the University of Ottawa on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 11:30 am at the University of Ottawa, Pavillon Roger Guindon, 451 Smyth Road, Rm: Amphitheatre (RGN 2005). The title and description are as follows:<\/p>\n \nFriesen Lecture 2019: Bartha Maria Knoppers<\/p>\n SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS: THE PROHIBITION REFLEX This Friesen Lecture intends to address the issue of the prohibition reflex that responds to queries about the ethico-legal impact of scientific breakthroughs by answering: \u201cThere should be a law against \u2018it\u2019!\u201d. Drawing on four decades of my involvement in emerging technologies and policymaking, I will try to decipher the lessons learned especially here in Canada. The stage however, is necessarily international. I have divided this retrospective-prospective journey by decades beginning in 1978 and chosen the emblematic, iconic events of: I) Louise Brown (the first \u201ctest-tube baby\u201d); II) Dolly (the cloned sheep); III) the human sequence \u201cMap\u201d; and, IV) the recent \u201cCRISPR babies\u201d in China and will conclude briefly with Big Data. Together, these breakthroughs will elucidate past, current, and future policy trajectories.<\/p>\n
\n(From IVF to AI)
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