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Professor Kathleen Liddell is the Herschel Smith Reader of Intellectual Property and Medical Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law, and Director of its Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. She holds a Senior Fellow appointment at Melbourne Law School, teaching courses on 'Law and Emerging Health Technologies' and 'Pharmaceuticals: Current Legal Issues'. Her research focuses on legal frameworks governing health innovation, with specialties in intellectual property in life sciences, bioinnovation, genomics, precision medicine, and regulatory issues around biomaterials/diagnostic tools. She employs interdisciplinary methods including patent mapping and interviews.
Education: LL.B./B.Sc. (Melbourne), M.Phil. Bioethics (Monash), D.Phil. Law (Oxford). She has worked in private legal practice and the civil service, and contributed to policy reports for national governments and the European Commission. Funded by grants from the Wellcome Trust, Philomathia Foundation, and others.
Key research areas include:
- Legal challenges in genomic research and personalized medicine
- Regulatory frameworks for clinical trials and antimicrobial resistance
- Intellectual property rights in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals
- GDPR compliance for biomedical data
- Medical negligence and liability in emerging technologies
