1. Bartha Knoppers was a professor at the Faculty of Law, Universite de Montreal, a Full Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, and is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Law and the Biomedical Ethics Unit.
Bartha Knoppers retired in 2024 and was named Distinguished James McGill Professor Emerita.
Bartha Knoppers is the Founding Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, and the Founder and Chair of Public Population Project in Genomics Consortium and CARTaGENE, Quebec.
Bartha Knoppers is Co-Founder and a Board Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and Co-Chair of the Governance Ethics Working Group for the Human Cell Atlas.
Bartha Knoppers was the Chair of the Ethics and Policy Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, the Chair of the International Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation, and the Chair of the Ethics Working Group of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Bartha Knoppers was a member of the Drafting Group for the Recommendation of the OECD Council on Health and Data Governance.
Bartha Knoppers has published over 565 peer-reviewed articles, over 117 book chapters and 38 books.
Bartha Knoppers is the lead author of the Stem Cell Charter and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics.
Bartha Knoppers's work has been featured in various peer-reviewed academic journals, such as SCIENCE, Nature, BMJ Open, Frontiers in Genetics, to name a few.
Bartha Knoppers was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "a world authority on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology".
Bartha Knoppers was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec, and a Commander of the Order of Montreal.
Bartha Knoppers was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.
Bartha Knoppers is a Senior Fellow for the PHG Foundation, University of Cambridge, UK, and gave the Baron de Lancey Lecture in 2022.