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This year from Cape Town, Dr. Ramesh Sonti, Director, ICGEB India, Dr. Luiz Zerbini, Director, ICGEB South Africa, and Dr. Vittorio Venturi, ICGEB Scientific Coordinator, based in Italy presented highlights from the year in research.

ICGEB hosts visit coordinated by the Director of the Chinese Regional Research Centre, Dr. Yili Yang.

Nairobi, Kenya: From 23 – 25 May 2023, the ICGEB Workshop organised by the Kenyan National Commission for Science Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) takes place.

Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Laureate in medicine, longtime Chairman of the DKFZ Board of Directors, passed on 29 May 2023.

The ICGEB is an intergovernmental organisation that plays a key role in promoting Biotechnology research excellence, training and technology transfer to industry for the benefit of humanity. It held its first in-person Board of Governors meeting since the pandemic on 10-11 May 2023 in Cape Town.

11 May, 2023: after a nine-year mandate as External Auditor of the ICGEB, Mr. Giovanni Coppola, President of the Chamber of European and International Affairs, Italian Court of Auditors, presented a final report to the ICGEB Board of Governors in Cape Town, South Africa.

The ICGEB Biotechnology Development Unit (BDU) and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste have organised the 19th Annual Meeting of the Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe, with the patronage of AREA Science Park.

For two days the ICGEB Board of Governors that sustains the activities of the Centre, coordinated by the Director-General of the ICGEB, Dr. Lawrence Banks, met in Cape Town, South Africa.