Lori Knowles
Research Fellow
Lori P. Knowles, B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., M.A., LL.M.
Phone/Facsimile: (617) 795-1765
email: armstrongknowles@juno.com,
Lori P. Knowles has practiced law in Toronto and taught at the University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools and Bard College, School of Environmental Policy. Prior to relocating to Boston, Massachusetts she was the Associate for Law at The Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank in New York, for five years. Her research interests include international law and biotechnology policy, intellectual property and reproductive technology. Ms. Knowles has been a consultant to the President Bush’s Council on Bioethics; President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Genome Canada; the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee; and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, among others. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Genome Canada and the Ethics Oversight Committee for the US Department of Veterans Affairs DNA Tissue Bank. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Forest Biotechnology in North Carolina, and the Pinchot Institute for Forest Conservation in Milford Pennsylvania.
Publications
Lori Knowles & Tania M. Bubela, "Challenges for Intellectual Property Management of HIV Vaccine-Related Research and Development: Part I, the Global Context" (2008) 16 Health Law Journal 55.
San Patten, Tania M. Bubela & Lori Knowles, "Challenges for Intellectual Property Management of HIV Vaccine-Related Research and Development: Part 2, the Canadian Context" (2008) 16 Health Law Journal 97.
Richard Gold, Wendy Adams, Louise Bernier, Tania M. Bubela, L. Cassivi, David Castle, G. Cleret de Langavant, M. Cloutier, A. Daar, H. Delerue, A. Glass, E. Henry, Lori Knowles et al., Toward a New Era for Intellectual Property: From Confrontation to Negotiation (Montreal: Innovation Partnership, 2008), also online: The Innovation Partnership <http://theinnovationpartnership.org/data/ieg/documents/report/TIP_Report_E.pdf>.
Lori Knowles et al., Synthetic Genomics: Scientists' Understanding of Society's Concerns, Society's Understanding of the Science and Scientists (New York: Sloan Foundation, 2008).
Lori P. Knowles, "Ethics and Stem Cell Research", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "The Use of Human Embryos in Stem Cell Research", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "Ethics of Research using Hybrids, Chimeras and Cytoplasmic Hybrids", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "Issues in Procurement of Embryonic Stem Cells: Informed Consent and Conflicts of Interest", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "Stem Cell Patents", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "Religion and Stem Cell Research", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "What Are Stem Cells and Where Do They Come From?", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles, "Commercialization and Stem Cell Research", online: Stem Cell Network <http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca>.
Lori P. Knowles and Gregory Kaebnick, eds., Reprogenetics: Law, Policy and Ethics (John Hopkins University Press, 2007).
Lori P. Knowles, "International Regulation of Reprogenetics" in Lori P. Knowles and Gregory Kaebnick, eds., Reprogenetics: Law, Policy and Ethics (John Hopkins University Press, 2007).
Lori P. Knowles, "Intellectual Property Management and HIV Vaccine-Related Technologies" (Health Canada, 2007).
Lori P. Knowles & A. Adair, "Genetic Engineering in Trees: The International Legal Landscape" (2007) 10:4 Journal of Biolaw and Business.
Lori P. Knowles, "Current and Proposed Stem Cell Registries: An International Perspective" (2007) Stem Cell Report.
Synthetic Genomics: Scientists' Understanding of Society's Concerns, Society's Understanding of the Science and Scientists, submitted to the Sloan Foundation. Principal investigators, Lori P. Knowles, Robert Friedman (J. Craig Venter Institute, Washington DC), Paul B. Thompson, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy.
