Timo Minssen is professor of law at the University of Copenhagen’s (UCPH) Center for Information & Innovation Law (CIIR). He leads large interdisciplinary research projects examining legal issues in synthetic biology, precision medicine and large research infrastructures. He is scientific advisory board member of the Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Sciences and steering committee member of the Danish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property. From January 2018 he will be the director of UCPH’s new Center and Collaborative Research Program for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, which is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.