Launched by ICGEB Cape Town at the BIO Africa Convention in 2020, ICGEB Science & the City events are being rolled out across major cities in South Africa in 2022.
In partnership with the BIO Africa Convention, ICGEB Cape Town launched the first international edition of ICGEB Science & the City.
ICGEB Science & the City is a series of open access public conferences on hot topics in Science. It represents a highly popular communications model launched and developed by the ICGEB to bring science to the people directly from the experts.
28 August 2022 – Durban, South Africa
Killie Campbell Museum, 5 pm
Whose IP is it anyway? Making biotech accessible to all
Mclean Sibanda (Bigen Global Ltd.), Stephen Sencer (Emory University), Dinakar Salunke (ICGEB New Delhi, India)
Moderator: Nhlanhla Msomi (South Africa Governor to ICGEB; President AfricaBio)
Link to the video (from min. 20.46)
29 March 2022 – Cape Town, South Africa
Centre for the Book
Myth Busters: Discrediting misinformation in Science
Lara Donaldson (ICGEB Cape Town), Mosa Moshabela (Univ. KwaZulu-Natal, Durban), David Phaho (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town), Rasigan Maharajh (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria).
Moderator: Nhlanhla Msomi (South Africa Governor to ICGEB; President AfricaBio)