Our speaker for our January Blockchain@UBC Research Talk is Darra Hofman, Blockchain@UBC's Student Leader and Ph.D student and one of this year's recipients of the Killam Doctoral Scholarships: awarded to students who are "likely to contribute to the advancement of learning or to win distinction in a profession".

Darra's talk will discuss the value and challenges of using blockchain technology for medical research data. Some of the issues addressed will be patient consent and study inclusion, access to data using the blockchain, and the challenges of multiple jurisdictions."

Audience would be anyone interested in blockchain applications in medicine or other highly regulated industries.

Lunch bites and coffee will be served.