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Dr Timo Minssen, Associate Professor of IP & Innovation Law, University<br />
of Copenhagen, Centre for Information & Innovation Law<br />
Timo Minssen’s research concentrates on Intellectual Property, Competition- &<br />
Regulatory Law with a special focus on the pharma, life science & biotech sectors.<br />
His studies comprise a broad variety of legal issues that emerge during the lifecycle<br />
of related products and processes—from the regulation of research and incentives<br />
for innovation to technology transfer and commercialization. Timo is also<br />
scientific advisory board member of the Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory<br />
Sciences (CORS) and co-heads the Copenhagen Biotech & Pharma Forum<br />
(CBPF). He is a frequent lecturer on a variety of biotech and pharma related topics<br />
with many publications in leading international journals. In 2012 he published the<br />
comprehensive study “Assessing the Inventiveness of Biopharmaceutical<br />
Technology under European and US Patent Law,” which was awarded with the<br />
Swedish King Oscar stipendium. He is also a regular contributor on Harvard Law<br />
School’s “Bill of Health” blog. At present he is collaborating with Oxford<br />
University Press on a book in pharmaceutical competition law.<br />
Professor Darrell Rowbottom, Head of Philosophy & Professor,<br />
Lingnan University<br />
Darrell P. Rowbottom is Professor and Head of Philosophy at Lingnan<br />
University, Hong Kong. His research focuses on general issues in the philosophy<br />
of science (e.g. scientific method, scientific realism, and scientific progress) and<br />
the philosophy of probability (e.g. intersubjective probability and measurement<br />
paradoxes). He also has interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and the<br />
philosophy of education. His textbook Probability was recently published<br />
by Polity Press; an edition in simplified Chinese is set to be published by Shanghai<br />
People’s Publishing House. He is currently completing a research monograph,<br />
The Instrument of Science, which articulates and defends a new form of<br />
instrumentalism about science.<br />
Dr Jeffrey M. Skopek, Lecturer in Medical Law, Ethics, and Policy,<br />
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge; Deputy Director, Centre for<br />
Law, Medicine and Life Sciences<br />
Jeffrey Skopek’s research interests centre on advances in the biosciences that<br />
destabilize categories and concepts that play a foundational role in our law and<br />
ethics. He is currently working on projects that explore challenges posed by<br />
developments in personalized medicine, biobanking, and big data. He previously<br />
taught at Harvard Law School, where he was a research fellow at the Petrie-Flom<br />
Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Prior to entering<br />
academia, he served as a law clerk to the Chief Judge of the United States Court<br />
of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has been awarded Fulbright, Gates, and<br />
Truman Scholarships and holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law<br />
School, a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the<br />
University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in History (with distinction) from Stanford<br />
University.<br />
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