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Meet the new IAP Biosecurity Working Group (BWG)
Biotechnology & Biosecurity
The new IAP BWG was established following a process of nominations of suitable experts by member academies.
The IAP General Assembly agreed to establish a Biosecurity Working Group in 2003, designed especially to link with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). Activities include the promotion of responsible research practices and links with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). A new IAP Biosecurity Working Group (BWG) was
established in 2020 following a process of nominations of suitable experts by member academies. Current BWG members are from Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Tinidad & Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States.
They are (click on the names to link their bios):
- Ann Arvin (chair),
- Walter Sandow Alhassan,
- Neela Badrie,
- Lela Bakanidze,
- Flerida A. Cariño,
- Susana Goldstein Fink,
- Roderick Flower,
- Thomas Lengauer,
- Arnaldo Lopes Colombo,
- Felix Moronta,
- Sergey Victorovich Netesov,
- Iqbal Parker,
- Bert Rima,
- Zabta Khan Shinwari,
- Yuan Zhiming,
- Menat Zanaty,
- Kavita Berger (ex-officio),
- Katherine Bowman (ex-officio)
The new BWG recently held its first online meeting; IAP looks fowart to work with them to promote of responsible research practices.
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