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Why We Should Care About the Move from Saliva to Living Cells in Precision Medicine

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Regenerative medical technologies use cell- and tissue-based methods to recapitulate, bioengineer, and reprogram human tissue, making a whole suite of sci-fi-sounding technologies an ever-closer reality. It seems, in the near term, that the “who” would probably be a venture-backed biotechnology company — a corporate actor.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

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These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. At the law school, Adithi is interested in examining how emerging biotechnologies in regenerative medicine intersect with patient privacy and other ownership rights.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2024-2025 Student Fellows

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2026) research interests include innovative medical technologies and chronic disease policy. Her research interests include genetics, environmental health sciences, novel biotechnologies, and the FDA regulatory process. Rupa Palanki’s (J.D. Department of Health & Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health.

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Protecting the Consumer at the Heart of DTC Precision Medicine

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The HIPAA Problem The privatization of next-generation medical technologies, especially in regenerative and precision medicine, further muddies the data-protection waters. The innovation-security tradeoff is a familiar trope in biotechnology, but the main character of the direct-to-consumer tissue-based service story is less so.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2022-2023 Student Fellows

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These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. Her research currently focuses on the interplay between intellectual property, transfer of technology, and financing to further access to medical technologies.

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Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal

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Is research in the interest of the public domain an activity exclusively developed by academic or healthcare entities, or can it be carried out by industry (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology companies, medical technology industries, and insurance providers)? If so, how?

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AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

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Trust and Design : Looking closely at data protection issues with a particular emphasis on questions of consent and trust in the context of the new data that is created by medical technologies.