PALMIRA GRANADOS MORENO ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE Palmira Granados (LL.M., Ph.D. (D.C.L.) is a Mexican lawyer and Academic Associate at the Centre of Genomics and Policy of McGill University specialized in intellectual property and life sciences and bioethics. She recently obtained her PhD (Doctor of Civil Law) from the Faculty of Law at McGill University. Her work focuses on the ethical and legal aspects of research and development involving biomedicine and genomics, as well as the legal and implementation issues around open science. She has published and presented her work in international fora on the interface between intellectual property and biomedicine and information technologies, commercialization, genetic discrimination and immigration, legal issues associated with open science and open source in biomedicine and information technologies, and bioethics, to name some. Research Areas: intellectual property and biomedicine, intellectual property and information technologies, open science and open source, genetic discrimination, medical devices regulation, bioethics.