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"Contributors" [2012] ELECD 323; in Bubela, Tania; Gold, Richard E. (eds), "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Editor(s): Bubela, Tania; Gold, Richard E.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848442238

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors

Tania Bubela is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health
Sciences at the University of Alberta. She is an intellectual property and health
lawyer with a background in population genetics. She received her PhD in
biological sciences from the University of Sydney and her JD from the
University of Alberta, after which she clerked at the Supreme Court of
Canada. Her current empirically-based and interdisciplinary research focuses
on health law and ethics, commercialisation, public­private partnerships, the
ethical conduct of research, and science metrics. Dr Bubela works with
biomedical research communities globally to develop collaborative research
partnerships and policies for the exchange of research data and materials and
to ensure the equitable distribution of benefits that result from biomedical
research. She is an expert with The Innovation Partnership, a non-profit orga-
nization focussed on building research management capacity in developing
countries and a Research Fellow with Science at Creative Commons and a
Research Associate with the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta.
She has consulted for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada
and her research is or has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Genome
Canada, Genome Alberta, Genome Prairie, the Ontario Genomics Institute, the
Canadian Stem Cell Network and other Networks of Centres of Excellence.
She has over 60 publications in law, ethics and science policy, including in
journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Cell Stem Cell, Trends in
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