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SUSGRAPE is an Interreg funded project of the ICGEB Bacteriology lab in Trieste, that aims to lower the use of chemical substances and Co2 emissions in grapevines and to study the development of new pesticides.

Trieste, Italy: European City of Science, will host the EuroScience Open Forum, originally scheduled from 4 to 10 July, 2020, the event is now due to take place between 2-6 September 2020. The biennial pan-European meeting is dedicated to research and innovation – and the discovery of future directions in science.

The Biotechnology Development Unit (BDU) has just successfully completed one month’s training by four industrial partner employees from India.

Recent reports on ICGEB’s Regulatory Science capacity building projects in sub-Saharan Africa

In March 2018, David Matthew Smith assumed the position of the Director General of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb.

Congratulations to the successful applicants for the ICGEB-JNU PhD Programme in Molecular Medicine, Plant Biology and Integrative Biology.

Dr. Cristina Guerra-Giraldez, ICGEB Appointed Governor from Peru, Associate Professor, at the Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy, “Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia” in Lima, recently presented the ICGEB and its activities at a high-level event held in Tumbes, on the Peruvian – Ecuadorian border.

The 17th Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics (UNIACB), hosted by UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 13-14 June 2018, identified, in particular, two topics of common interest on the possible implications of ethics: genome editing and artificial intelligence.