Intellectual Property Events

Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, Director of Duke University's IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy (sponsored by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM))

Universities, technologies, philanthropies, governments, international organizations, companies, and patents: An impressionistic analysis of what these have to do with global health"

Date: April 23, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Room 0001, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center
(If arriving late, please bring your UNC One Card for building access.)

Robert Cook-Deegan has been the Director of Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy since July, 2002. Prior to coming to Duke, he was director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship program at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome. Dr. Cook-Deegan was a congressional science fellow in 1982 and spent five years at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Some of his many other appointments and accomplishments can be viewed at http://www.genome.duke.edu/people/faculty/cookdeegan/

UAEM is a student organization committed to increasing neglected disease research, increasing global access to university technologies through improvements in licensing and IP management, and redefining research success through the development of humanitarian metrics. The UNC chapter can be contacted at uaem@unc.edu. More information can be found at: http://studentorgs.unc.edu/uaem/

CIPLA Course Information and Registration; Officer Elections

Carolina Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) will be holding a meeting to discuss course information and registration, as well as elect officers for the 2008-09 academic year.

Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Time: Noon
Location: Room 4082, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law

Lunch will be provided.

If you are interested in serving on the CIPLA board, please relay this interest to Erin Regel at regel@email.unc.edu