Biosecurity Office international The Biosecurity Office regularly attends international meetings with the aim of sharing knowledge, acquiring knowledge, and networking.
Publication: international biosecurity legislation We recently published the article Complementarity of International Instruments in the Field of Biosecurity in Frontiers in Public Health.
Article: “When all research is dual use” In a March 2022 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from a US pharmaceutical company who were building artificial intelligence systems for virtual drug discovery issued a wake-up call
Biosecurity scenario: Wandering package Do you have an overview of your parcels to be received at all times or do parcels sometimes get lost in your organization?
Horizon scan of technologies with potential dual-use risks The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report in October containing the findings of an international horizon scan on dual-use research of concern (DURC) in the life sciences.
Review Biosecurity Knowledge Day 2021 It was exciting until the last minute whether it could go ahead, but we are happy that we can look back on a successful Knowledge Day.
Rik Bleijs appointed as co-chairman of the IEGBBR In October, Rik Bleijs was elected co-chair of the steering committee of the International Experts Groups of Biosafety and Biosecurity Regulators (IEGBBR).
Biosecurity scenario: Orphan material Here we present another current scenario with regard to biosecurity. This time the scenario is based on a recently published article about orphan material.
Expert control seminar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regularly organizes seminars on export control. Due to continued success, another export control seminar will be organized on Friday 26 November 2021.
Review of the third webinar in the series “Laboratory Research: Biosecurity and Dual-Use implications"” Last year, the Biosecurity Office organized three webinars on the theme “Biosecurity in Research”.