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Javier Lezaun
James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance
Education: Phd, Science and Technology Studies | Cornell University
Biography
Javier Lezaun is a James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance; Lead Researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, and Fellow of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford.
Dr Lezaun’s research focuses on the governance of new biotechnologies and the impact of organizational models in pharmaceutical R&D. He is the director of BioProperty, an ERC-funded project examining the role of intellectual property rights in biomedical research. Current areas of work include open innovation approaches to malaria drug discovery, the regulatory implications of genetically engineered insects, and the involvement of citizens in the assessment of controversial technologies.
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