Cape Town, October 27th, 2021 – ICGEB Director-General,Lawrence Banks sign an agreement with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, enabling partnerships with local companies to develop advanced biotherapeutics.
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Latest updates
“ICGEB for COVID-19: enable locally to recover globally” Virtual Symposium
The ICGEB symposium on COVID19 highlights ICGEB activities related to COVID-19 and feedback on how to cooperate against future challenges – playlist now available
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PACTs Programme for Least Developed Countries – Call for North-South Training extended
The Call for applications for North-South Biotechnology Policy and Regulatory Science Training is open and receiving applications until 30 November 2021.
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Celebrating UN Day
24 October 2021: On UN Day – and UN World Development Information day – we remember our noble and our Nobel origins – with Prof. Arturo Falaschi and Prof. Rita Levi Montalcini in 1983, championing Biotechnology and the foundation of our Organisation that stands today as a legacy to Science and International Cooperation.
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“Curing a Broken Heart” with INCardio, an Italy-Austria Interreg collaboration
October 7, 2021 – INCardio public event on innovative therapies to fight cardiovascular diseases
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Dr. Lara Donaldson selected as a Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme
Dr. Lara Donaldson, ICGEB Cape Town Plant Systems Biology Group Leader has been selected as a Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme 2021.
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Scientific team discovers protein that protects the cellular nucleus from Alzheimer’s disease
Looking at the nucleus of cells to understand Alzheimer’s disease. A group of Italian scientists coordinated by Giannino Del Sal has identified a protein, PIN1, which protects the cell nucleus from malformations. The findings have just been published in Cell Reports.
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Workshop on epidemiological surveillance capacity to address COVID-19 and other epidemics
ICGEB Trieste and Nicolae Testemitanu State University have organised a 3-day workshop to strengthen the surveillance capacity to address COVID-19 and other epidemics in Moldova. The workshop will take place online from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 September 2021.
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A call to arms for cell-cell interactions in the microbiome
July 2021: Published in Trends in Plant Science, Vittorio Venturi and Cristina Bez in Trieste call for accelerated research on the cell-cell interactions between bacteria in plant microbiomes.
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ICGEB moves on implementing laboratory diagnostics program in Africa
A pilot study on cost-effective SARS-CoV-2 testing, coordinated by ICGEB, has been successfully extended to the second phase in 9 countries in Africa.
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From the Director-General
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.
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Plant Transcription Regulation: ICGEB New Delhi welcomes its newest Group Leader
Dr. Jitendra K. Thakur has recently commenced a new position at ICGEB New Delhi as Group Leader of the Plant Transcription Regulation laboratory.
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