What is VALGEN?
Value Addition Through Genomics and GE3LS
The well-being of Canadians has long depended upon the agricultural industry. The VALGEN research team is investigating how Canada can benefit from applications of agricultural genomics, a new science which studies the effects of the entire set of genes making up a particular organism such as our familiar crops of wheat, flax, canola and corn. The project focuses on three crucial factors that affect how scientific discoveries make their way from laboratory to the marketplace.
Research Themes
Democratic Engagement
Canadians need meaningful ways to participate in decision-making about how we choose, develop and use new agricultural technologies and products. The VALGEN team will engage the Canadian public to learn...
Governance and Regulation
VALGEN aims to identify new models for governance of breakthrough agricultural technologies and bioproducts, and to ensure that publicly supported research is used efficiently to benefit Canadians. For Canadians to get...
Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer
VALGEN will examine how scientific and technological discoveries leave the laboratory as intellectual property such as patents, copyrights and trade secrets. The research will investigate how these legal tools are...
VALGEN’s Toolbox: Triage, Models, Methods, and Metrics
VALGEN’s Toolbox: Triage, Models, Methods, and Metrics Triage: VALGEN will apply a triage methodology to consolidate resources and set priorities. Triage will consider known versus unknown theory and evidence and...
Recent News
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Intellectual Property Research, McGill University
January 18, 2012
The successful candidate will join the VALGEN project team under the supervision of Professor E. Richard Gold in McGill’s Faculty of Law. For more information click here...
Brief Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States – Gene Patents
January 17, 2012
Amici Brief of Scholars in Law, Medicine, Health Policy and Clinical Genetics. Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States by a group of academics led by VALGEN Investigator...