Professor Naomi Hawkins

Edited books

• (Ed.) (2022) Patenting Biotechnical Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Journal articles

• Anderson M, Coblitz B, Contreras JL, Ferguson S, Hawkins N, Slade A & Miller A (2025) R2B contracts: complexities and considerations when contracting with universities and other not-for-profit research organisations. Les Nouvelles, 60(1), 141-151. View this article in WRRO
• Anderson M, Hawkins N & Slade A (2024) Contracts and intellectual property rights in translational R&D: furthering safeguards in the public interest. Nature Biotechnology, 42(2), 179-182. View this article in WRRO
• Hawkins N & Slade A (2023) Intellectual property rights and advance purchase agreements in a crisis. Intellectual Property Quarterly(1), 1-32. View this article in WRRO
• Shutler JD, Yan X, Cnossen I, Schulz L, Watson AJ, Glaßmeier K-H, Hawkins N & Nasu H (2022) Atmospheric impacts of the space industry require oversight. Nature Geoscience, 15(8), 598-600.
• Walsh K, McMahon A & Hawkins N (2022) Special issue : patents in a changing Europe. European Intellectual Property Review, 44(4), 192-197. View this article in WRRO
• Walsh K, Wallace A, Pavis M, Olszowy N, Griffin J & Hawkins N (2021) Intellectual Property Rights and Access in Crisis. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 52(4), 379-416.
• Hawkins N (2021) Patents and non-invasive prenatal testing: Is there cause for concern?. Science and Public Policy, 47(5), 655-667.
• Hawkins N, Nicol D, Chandrasekharan S & Cook‐Deegan R (2019) The continuing saga of patents and non‐invasive prenatal testing. Prenatal Diagnosis, 39(6), 441-447.
• Carrieri D, Howard HC, Benjamin C, Clarke AJ, Dheensa S, Doheny S, Hawkins N, Halbersma-Konings TF, Jackson L, Kayserili H , Kelly SE et al (2019) Recontacting patients in clinical genetics services: recommendations of the European Society of Human Genetics. European Journal of Human Genetics, 27(2), 169-182.
• Hawkins N & Hughes-Davies T (2018) Striking a balance: resolving conflicts between the duty of confidentiality and duties to third parties in genetics. Legal Studies, 38(4), 645-665.
• Carrieri D, Jackson L, Bewshea C, Prainsack B, Mansfield J, Ahmad T, Hawkins N & Kelly S (2018) Ethical issues in genomic research: Proposing guiding principles co-produced with stakeholders. Clinical Ethics, 13(4), 194-198.
• Doheny S, Clarke A, Carrieri D, Dheensa S, Hawkins N, Lucassen A, Turnpenny P & Kelly S (2018) Dimensions of responsibility in medical genetics: exploring the complexity of the “duty to recontact”. New Genetics and Society, 37(3), 187-206.
• Kaye J, Kanellopoulou N, Hawkins N, Gowans H, Curren L & Melham K (2013) CAN I ACCESS MY PERSONAL GENOME? THE CURRENT LEGAL POSITION IN THE UK. Medical Law Review, 22(1), 64-86.
• Hawkins N (2012) An exception to infringement for genetic testing - Addressing patient access and divergence between law and practice. IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 43(6), 641-661.
• Hawkins N (2011) Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes. By David Koepsell. Pp. 187. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.) £14.99, ISBN 978-1-4051-8730-5, paperback.. Journal of Biosocial Science, 43(6), 765-766.
• Hawkins N (2011) The impact of human gene patents on genetic testing in the United Kingdom. Genetics in Medicine, 13(4), 320-324.
• Gowans H, Kanellopoulou N, Hawkins N, Curren L, Melham K, Kaye J & Boddington P (2011) Consent Forms in Genomics: The Difference between Law and Practice. European Journal of Health Law, 18(5), 491-519.
• Heeney C, Hawkins N, de Vries J, Boddington P & Kaye J (2011) Assessing the Privacy Risks of Data Sharing in Genomics. Public Health Genomics, 14(1), 17-25.
• Curren L, Kaye J, Boddington P, Melham K, Hawkins N, Gowans H & Kanellopoulou N (2010) Identifiability, Genomics and UK Data Protection Law. European Journal of Health Law, 17(4), 329-344.
• Kaye J, Boddington P, de Vries J, Hawkins N & Melham K (2010) Ethical implications of the use of whole genome methods in medical research. European Journal of Human Genetics, 18(4), 398-403.
• Kaye J, Heeney C, Hawkins N, de Vries J & Boddington P (2009) Data sharing in genomics — re-shaping scientific practice. Nature Reviews Genetics, 10(5), 331-335.
• Boddington P, Hawkins N, Heeney C, de Vries J & Kaye J (2008) The Path Forward for DNA Data. Science, 322(5905), 1186-1187.
• Kaye J, Hawkins N & Taylor J (2007) Patents and translational research in genomics. Nature Biotechnology, 25(7), 739-741.
• Kaye J & Hawkins N () Data sharing policy design for consortia: challenges for sustainability. Genome Medicine, 6(1).
• Church G, Heeney C, Hawkins N, de Vries J, Boddington P, Kaye J, Bobrow M & Weir B () Public Access to Genome-Wide Data: Five Views on Balancing Research with Privacy and Protection. PLoS Genetics, 5(10), e1000665-e1000665.
• Hawkins N, de Vries J, Boddington P, Kaye J & Heeney C () Planning for translational research in genomics. Genome Medicine, 1(9).

Book chapters

• Hawkins N (2023) 30 Gene patents in the EPC and the European patent with unitary effect, European Patent Law (pp. 497-516). De Gruyter
• Hawkins N (2022) Patents and the public interest: A multi-faceted approach, Patenting Biotechnical Innovation Eligibility Ethics and Public Interest (pp. 196-203).
• Hawkins N (2022) Introduction - Patenting biotechnical innovation: In the public interest?, Patenting Biotechnical Innovation Eligibility Ethics and Public Interest (pp. 1-18).
• Hawkins N (2015) Intellectual Property and Biobanks, The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (pp. 39-51). Springer Netherlands
• Hawkins N, Kanellopoulou N, Kaye J, Melham K, Boddington P, Curren L & Gowans H (2013) Ownership of Biomedical Information in Biobanks, Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks (pp. 77-86). Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Reports

• (2021) Building and sustaining collaborative platforms in genomics and biobanks for health innovation

Preprints

• Slade A & Hawkins N () Intellectual Property Rights and Advance Purchase Agreements in a Crisis.