Bartha Knoppers

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine. Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University. Prof. Knoppers holds four Doctorates Honoris Causa. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Hastings Center, Canadian Academy Health Sciences, Royal Society of Canada and Senior Fellow, The PHG Foundation, UK. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Quebec. Galton Lecturer in November 2017. She was Awarded the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research (2019), the Till and McCulloch Award for Science Policy (2020) and The Canadian Bioethics Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2021). She is also a Member of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, Canada’s Vaccine Task Force, Health Data Strategy Expert Advisory Group, CanCOGen’s HostSeq project and the COVID Cloud (DNAstack).