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Ubaka Ogbogu joins the TIP Team
17 May 2010
The Inonvation Partnership would like to welcome Ubaka Ogbogu, who joined us as a TIP Expert. Obaka was born and raised in Nigeria. He moved to Canada in 2002. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, an Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Bioethics, and the Associate Director of Research and Education at the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Research Associate at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. He is currently completing a doctor of juridical science degree at the University of Toronto, researching whether legal intervention is a legitimate means of adjudicating scientific conflicts and whether such intervention in the past produced any relevant lessons for dealing with contemporary scientific controversies. His research interests include health law, public law theory, and the history of science regulation. He has done significant research on the ethical, legal, and social issues associated with emerging biotechnologies, including on issues linked with innovation and patent policies relevant to biomedical research. Ogbogu is a member of the Nigerian bar, and worked as an attorney at a leading Nigerian law firm before moving to Canada.