Timo Minssen

Timo Minssen

Professor

Timo Minssen is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). He is the Founding Director of UCPH's Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), and an LML Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge. His research, supervision, teaching & part-time advisory practice concentrates on Intellectual Property-, Competition- & Regulatory Law, as well as on the law & ethics of emerging health & life science technologies, such as genome editing, big data,  artificial intelligence, and quantum technology. This involves a plethora of legal issues emerging during the lifecycle of relevant products and processes -  from the sustainable regulation of R&D and incentives for innovation to responsible technology transfer and commercialization. Based on both his academic and practical experience from law firms, courts & life science start-ups, Timo serves as a member of several international committees and as an advisor to the WHO, WIPO, EU Commission, various organizations, companies, law firms and national governments. He presents his research at international symposia, major law firms, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Hong Kong & Tokyo, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Yale,  MIT, the Broad institute, as well as at the WHO, WIPO, European Medicines Agency and National Ehics Councils etc. His publications comprise 7 books, as well as 200+ articles and book chapters. Timo's research has been featured in i.a. The Economist, The Financial Times, El Mundo, Politico, Times of India, WHO Bulletin & Times Higher Education, and published in leading journals, such as Science, JAMA, NEJM Catalyst, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Manager, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Electronics, Nature PJ Digital Medicine, The Lancet Digital Health, PLoS-Computational Biology, Biotech. J., Drug Discovery, JLB, BLR, Person.Med., IIC, EIPR, ECLR, JIPLP, GRUR Int., Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop., IPQ, QMJIP, NIR & EUConst.LR. He is also a regular contributor on Harvard Law School's "Bill of Health" blog. 

Main research areas

  • AI & Big Data in the Health & Life Sciences
  • Sustainable and responsible innovation & tech transfer
  • Pharmaceutical-, Life Science- & Biotech Law
  • Comparative European & US Patent Law
  • Intellectual Property Law & Open Innovation
  • EU Competition- & US Antitrust Law

Fields of interest

  • Law & ethics
  • Synthetic Biology & Nanotechnology
  • Law & (Emerging) Technologies
  • EU Law
  • Medical & Health Law
  • E-Health

Appointments

Past appointments

 

Research management

  1. Novo Nordisk Foundation's International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law  (Inter-CeBIL) Programme (PI & grant recipient, 50 million DKK).
  2. CLASSICA: EU Horizon Project on AI-assisted surgery (coPI)
  3. AI@Care: Law and Ethics and Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare (Principal Investigator)
  4. KU Sustainability in Drug Development Network (grant co-recipient & steering committee member)
  5. SSHRC (Canadian Research Council) partnership grant:Global strategies to manage the global antimicrobial commons in a sustainable, acceptable, fair and effective (SAFE) manner (coPI , leader of CeBIL team)
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Completed

  1. PI & grant recipient: Novo Nordisk Foundation's Collaborative Research Programme in Biomedical Innovation Law (2018-2023, grant size: ca. 5 mill EUR).
  2. The Quantum Law Project, Wallenberg (WASP-HS) Project at Lund University (coPI)
  3. Principal Investigator: Global genes, local concerns: Legal, ethical and scientific challenges in cross-national biobanking and translational exploitation,  (total grant size: ca. 3,6 mill EUR)
  4. coPI, steering committee member & WP leader: CoNEXT - Fertilizing the ground and harvesting the full potential of the new neutron and X-ray research infrastructures close to UCPH -  & steering committee member (total grant size: ca. 3,7 mill EUR)
  5. coPI, steering committeee member and WP leader: BioSYNergy - towards a Bio-Based Society (total grant: ca. 3,7 mill EUR)
  6. AdManI: Additive Manufacturing and Innovation: Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Related Aspects of Rising Technologies (International Research Partner)
  7. User Generated Law: Re-constructing Law in the Knowledge Society (coPI, WP leader)
  8. Co-supervisor for a PhD thesis and collaborator in an interdisciplinary research project on "Counterfeit Medicines" (in co-operation with the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences).
  9. Co-supervisor for a PhD thesis and collaborator in an interdisciplinary research project on "Regulation of Biosimilars" (in co-operation with the Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Sciences (CORS) and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
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Editorial tasks

 

 

Peer-review

  • IIC- International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
  • Science
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences 
  • European Pharmaceutical Law Review
  • QMJIP- Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
  • PLOS Biology

PhD students

  • Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz, Patenting Personalised Medicine in Europe, In collaboration with Faculty of Law at KU Leuven (co-supervisor)
  • Leonard Floryan, Antimicrobial Resistance and Pull Incentives (co-supervisor)

Completed:

PostDocs related to research projectsUpdate

  • Ana Nordberg (BioSYNergy)
  • Torsten Bjørn Larsen (CoNEXT)
  • Helen Yu (CoNEXT)
  • Jakob Wested (CeBIL)
  • Louise Druedahl (CeBIL & CLASSICA)
  • Christy Kollmar (CeBIL)
  • Behrang Kianzad (CeBIL)
  • Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci (CeBIL)
  • Audrey Lebret (Data+)

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Teaching in courses for Professionals and PhD students

Udvalgte publikationer

  1. Udgivet

    Mayo’s impact on patent applications related to biotechnology, diagnostics and personalized medicine

    Aboy, M., Crespo, C., Liddell, K., Minssen, Timo & Liddicoat, J., maj 2019, I: Nature Biotechnology. 37, s. 513-518 6 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  2. Udgivet

    Knowledge transfer for large scale vaccine manufacturing

    Price II, W. N., Rai, A. & Minssen, Timo, 13 aug. 2020, I: Science. 369, 6506, s. 912-914

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  3. Udgivet

    Rules and Tools in the Battle against Superbugs - A call for integrated strategies and enhanced international collaboration to promote antimicrobial drug development

    Minssen, Timo & Nordberg, A., 18 maj 2020, Infectious Diseases in the New Millennium: Legal and Ethical Challenges. Eccleston-Turner, M. & Brassington, I. (red.). Springer, s. 111-136 26 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportBidrag til bog/antologiForskningfagfællebedømt

  4. Udgivet

    The problem with antibiotics

    Darrow, J. & Minssen, Timo, maj 2019, I: The Economist. 431, 9144, s. 20 1 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftLetter

  5. Udgivet

    Ethical and legal issues of ingestible electronic sensors

    Gerke, S., Minssen, Timo, Yu, H. & Cohen, G., 15 aug. 2019, I: Nature Electronics . 2, 8, s. 329–334 5 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  6. Udgivet

    Global Genes, Local Concerns: Legal, Ethical and Scientific Challenges in International Biobanking

    Minssen, Timo, Herrmann, Janne Rothmar & Schovsbo, Jens Hemmingsen, apr. 2019, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 304 s.

    Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapportBog

  7. Udgivet

    Shadow health records meet new data privacy laws

    Price II, W. N., Spector-Bagdady, K., Minssen, Timo & Kaminski, M., 1 feb. 2019, I: Science. 363, 6426, s. 448-450 3 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  8. Udgivet

    An "export-only" exception to pharmaceutical patents in Europe: Should the U.S. follow suit?

    Minssen, Timo, Kesselheim, A. & Darrow, J., 3 jan. 2019, I: Nature Biotechnology. 37, 1, s. 21-22 2 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  9. Udgivet

    Germany’s Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries

    Gerke, S., Stern, A. & Minssen, Timo, 10 jul. 2020, I: Nature PJ Digital Medicine. 3, s. 1-6 6 s., 94.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  10. Udgivet

    How does emerging patent case law in the US and Europe affect precision medicine? How will today’s patent law affect tomorrow’s innovation in the areas of biomarkers and nature-based products; diagnostics; and algorithms, big data and AI?

    Aboy, M., Cohen, G., Liddell, K., Liddicoat, J., Crespo, C., Gerke, S. & Minssen, Timo, 2 okt. 2019, I: Nature Biotechnology. 37, 10, s. 1118–1125 8 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  11. Udgivet

    The European Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Implications and Challenges for Digital Health

    Cohen, G., Evgeniou, T., Gerke, S. & Minssen, Timo, 23 jun. 2020, I: The Lancet Digital Health. 2, 7, s. 376-379

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

  12. Udgivet

    Regulatory responses to medical machine learning

    Minssen, Timo, Gerke, S., Aboy, M., Price II, W. N. & Cohen, G., apr. 2020, I: Journal of Law and the Biosciences . 7, 1, s. 1-18 18 s.

    Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

Udvalgte aktiviteter

  1. Ethical Licensing for CRISPR: Exploring the Opportunities for Responsible Licensing Mechanisms to Restore Trust

    Van Zimmeren, E. (Oplægsholder) & Minssen, Timo (Oplægsholder)

    4 mar. 2019

    Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

  2. CTD Transparency and Commercial Confidentiality according to the CJEU’s Case Law (Basel)

    Minssen, Timo (Inviteret foredragsholder)

    27 feb. 2019

    Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

  3. Scientific, Regulatory & Legal Dimensions of Recent Advances in Gene Editing

    Minssen, Timo (Arrangør)

    4 mar. 2019

    Aktivitet: Deltagelse i arrangement eller begivenhed - typerOrganisation af og deltagelse i konference

  4. The Proposed EU IP Exception for Generics & Biosimilars Exports - A Cure Worse Than the Disease? (at UC Irvine)

    Minssen, Timo (Inviteret foredragsholder)

    8 feb. 2019

    Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

  5. Confessions of a party crasher: Artificial Intelligence and the Law(yer)

    Minssen, Timo (Inviteret foredragsholder)

    31 jan. 2019

    Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

  6. Rättsliga aspekter av AI inom health och life sciences (Legal aspects of AI in the Health & Life Sciences)

    Minssen, Timo (Inviteret foredragsholder)

    28 jan. 2019

    Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

Udvalgte priser

  1. King Oscar award for best Jur. Dr. thesis

    Minssen, Timo (Modtager), apr. 2014

    Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser

  2. Jorcks Fonds Forsknings Pris (Jorck's Foundation Research Prize)

    Minssen, Timo (Modtager), 2017

    Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser

  3. Awapatent Research Prize

    Minssen, Timo (Modtager), 2009

    Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser

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