Stanford BioLaw is pleased to announce the launch this month of its newsletter, Stanford BioLaw SNPs. Named after the acronym for single nucleotide polymorphisms (pronounced “snips”), the newsletter will draw from a wide variety of sources to offer readers a summary of major developments at the interface of law and biotechnology. Under the leadership of managing editor Seema Shah ’05, the SNPs team will scour newspapers, court decisions, nongovernment organization publications, government reports, bioethics articles, and science journals in search of noteworthy changes in the legal and political landscape surrounding biotechnology. BioLaw members will also conduct interviews with principal actors involved in particularly important events. Stanford BioLaw is grateful to the group of experts that have agreed to provide advice to the SNPs team, including professors Hank Greely and John Barton of Stanford Law School, Dr. David Magnus of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University, and Dr. Terry Tang of Kirkland and Ellis. The SNPs newsletter will be available online at http://biolaw.stanford.edu starting in March of 2004. Stanford BioLaw members working on the SNPs project include Erica Goldberg ’05, Arun Patel ’04, Rachel Walsh ’06, Rena Kaminsky ’06, Okey Onyejekwe ’06, Amy Chou ’06, Vicki Healy ’06, and Pablo Arredondo ’05. The newsletter will be distributed free of charge to universities, bioethics centers, law firms, and any other interested parties. For further information visit the BioLaw web site at http://biolaw.stanford.edu/snps.html. |
