Professor of Law and Biology
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Professor Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship, with a particular focus on race and justice, holds a joint appointment with the School of Law and the Department of Biology in the College of Science. He also plays a key role in the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law and its Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC). Professor Kahn recently received a National Library of Medicine for his book project, The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences. The book will examine the biomedical, social, legal, commercial and policy implications of the emergence of “diversity” as a central organizing concept animating an array of programs and research agendas aimed at driving genomic innovation. He previously received two grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program to support projects exploring the ethical and legal ramifications of the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in the context of gene patenting and drug development. He is the author of Race in Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in sa Post-Genome Age (Columbia 2013); and Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong about the Struggle for Racial Justice (Columbia 2017)
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The Legal Weaponization of Racialized DNA
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET