Professor Nicholas Léger-Riopel of the Faculty of Law at the Université de Moncton contributes to one of the first books on interdisciplinary translational research

On September 24^th, a book entitled “Les frontières entre recherche et soin: diagnostics et pronostics juridiques” (the boundaries between research and care: diagnosis and legal prognosis) appeared in the University Press of Aix-Marseille. This book focuses on translational research, an emerging paradigm of biomedical research and practice and its various scientific and technical terms (biobanks, mapping the human gene, longitudinal and multigenerational studies etc ..).

Professor Nicholas Léger-Riopel’s contribution focuses on translational research’s legal framework, which, until present, has been characterized by the difficulties of Law to seize complex scientific and social phenomena.

This text is aimed at a readership consisting not only of lawyers but also a diversity of actors such as researchers in the fields of health, health professionals, members of professional orders (physicians, nurses, dentists, etc …), as well as variety of health administrators and hospital managers for whom considerations of research are part of everyday practice.

The book is available here: http://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/frontieres-entre-recherche-soin-diagnostics-pronostics-juridiques