Director General News

With research highlights, testimonials and feature stories from Headquarters in Italy, happenings in South Africa and Scientific Meetings in India.

August 2022: ICGEB Director-General, Lawrence Banks visits Member State Zimbabwe

This month ICGEB Director-General, Dr. Lawrence Banks writes on his recent participation in the UN ECOSOC High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York and other initiatives championing for Basic Research.

The Director-General, Dr. Lawrence Banks reports on the recent Governance meetings and milestones in Outreach for ICGEB.

The Director-General, Lawrence Banks and Chief, External Relations Marianna Maculan visited partner institutes in Member State Chile in April 2022.

The Director-General, Lawrence Banks and a delegation from ICGEB Headquarters in Trieste, Italy visited partner institutes in Member States Argentina and Peru in March, 2022.

As international networking resumed, delegations from ICGEB HQ have been to India to consolidate renewed collaboration and expansion, to the Middle East, and, this week, will be in Member States in South America.

The Director-General, Lawrence Banks and a delegation from ICGEB Headquarters in Trieste, Italy was back visiting ICGEB New Delhi this week after a two-year hiatus.

Reverting, with regret, to remote seasonal greetings, Lawrence Banks summed up the year and delivered his vision for the future to the ICGEB community in December 2021.

This month, Lawrence Banks, writes from Cape Town, South Africa, where, following the session of the Council of Scientific Advisers, a team set out on a tour of Universities in Limpopo, Venda, and Walter Sisulu (Eastern Cape).

This month Lawrence Banks writes from HQ Trieste, following the G20 Research and visits by the Ministers of Science of Brazil, South Africa, and the President of TUBITAK, Turkey. He remarks on the successfully trialled novel diagnostic for COVID-19 tailored to low-resource settings and the Organisation’s expanding core programmes.