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Founded in 1921, Soroptimist International is a global volunteer movement with a network of over 75,000 club members in122 countries, aiming at ensuring that voices of women and girls are heard.

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.

This year, ICGEB’s traditional internal Symposium, bringing together its young, dedicated researchers to present their projects and results to colleagues and Group Leaders celebrates its 23rd anniversary.

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.

On May 29-31 2018, the Regional Expert Consultation on Agricultural Biotechnology to improve livelihoods of farmers in Asia-Pacific was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Martina Viviani, ICGEB Head, Technology Transfer, Fundraising and Innovation, reports.

Suresh Nair, ICGEB New Delhi was on the panel at the STI Forum for sustainable terrestrial ecosystems at the UN in New York last week for the SDGs.

A protfolio of curriculum-based modules encompassing the biosafety of genetically modified organisms, and related matters in biosecurity, public health, natural resource managament, biocontrol and bioremediation has been launched by the Biosafety Group at ICGEB.