News and events

James Mittra was invited to the University of Rhode Island, College of Environment and Life Sciences, as part of its Distinguished Visiting International Scholar Programme.

The report written by Joyce Tait on ‘Environmental regulation of synthetic biology: anticipating future regulatory oversights’ is published.

Niki Vermeulen is appointed member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS).

Joyce Tait and Ann Kingiri contributed to a recent high profile report on gene drive research from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

This review on AMR, proposed in an Innogen report in 2015, assesses solutions to the spread of drug resistance.

The formal launch on the 6th April 2016 of the ‘Association for Studies in Innovation Science and Technology-UK’ was co-chaired by Andrew Webster and Robin Williams.

Theo Papaioannou, Andrew Watkins, Dinar Kale and Julius Mugwagwa participate in the PSA Annual International Conference 21 – 23 March 2016.

‘Curious Edinburgh’ is a project about the history of science, technology and medicine in Edinburgh.

The Innogen Institute, based at the University of Edinburgh and the Open University, achieved excellent results in the latest UK research evaluation, called the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Joyce Tait discussed ‘The Challenges & Barriers to Industrial Biotechnology’ on 29 January 2016 at the IBioIC’s Conference.