Heidi Beate Bentzen

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Visiting address Gaustadalléen 21 Forskningsparken Hus C Plan 1 0349 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1130 Blindern 0318 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Biotechnology Law
  • Privacy and Data Protection Law
  • Health Law
  • Bioethics
  • Life Science
  • Personalized Medicine / Precision Medicine
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Open Science
  • Stem cells, organoids and gastruloids

Bentzen researches the legal and ethical aspects of emerging technologies and large-scale processing of health and genetic data, within and across contexts and jurisdictions. She furthermore researches the legal and ethical regulation of organoid and gastruloid research.

Courses taught

Background

Bentzen is also an Academic Affiliate at HeLEX Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at the University of Oxford. At the University of Oslo, she is affiliated with both the Centre for Medical Ethics and the Hybrid Technology Hub – Centre of Excellence.

Bentzen has published in some of the world’s foremost scientific journals, is frequently invited to present at international conferences, and is an advisor to several of the largest medical research and health data infrastructure projects in Europe.

She furthermore evaluates proposals for the European Commission and the Dam Foundation, and conducts ethics reviews for the European Commission and a Norwegian Regional Ethics Committee. She is a member of several advisory boards, including boards providing advice to the government on biotechnology and health data.

She was inter alia a member of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy's Task Force on privacy and the protection of health data, part of drafting the global Recommendation on the protection and use of health-related data. Bentzen was furthermore a member of the working group led by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research to establish a collaboration on Artificial Intelligence on a national level between Norway and the United States, resulting in an MoU, and she was a  working Group Member contributing to the ALLEA, EASAC, FEAM report on International Sharing of Personal Health Data for Research.

Publications

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