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Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India first announced a new initiative for women in science at the ICGEB Symposium held in New Delhi in 2019.

Natasa Skoko heads Biotechnology Development at ICGEB Trieste. Here, she presents feedback from technology transfer training for the production of biotherapeutic products undertaken in her lab, underpinning the great opportunity offered to our Member States.

On 6 January 2020, Lawrence Banks, ICGEB Director-General was at the China Medical City in Taizhou, to sign the agreement for the implementation of the First ICGEB Regional Research Centre.

The ICGEB China Regional Research Centre is now recruiting for the position of Director. See Nature

André Rosado, Programme Specialist in the ICGEB Biosafety Group was at the Department of Plant Breeding of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as part of a Mistra-funded programme to support mobility for young researchers.

Vladimir Glisin, founder of the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering IMGGE, the ICGEB Affiliated Centre in Belgrade, Serbia, passed away on December 22, 2019.

Alessandro Marcello, Molecular Virology Group Leader, ICGEB Trieste was at the 3rd BRICS STI Working Group Meeting on Biotechnology and Biomedicine including Human Health and Neuroscience to identify areas of cooperation for a joint project application.

ICGEB Alumnus Piero Carninci, is the new advisor for the genomic center at Human Technopole, Milan and Deputy Centre Director at the RIKEN Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences in Yokohama (Japan). We asked him to write about his trajectory.