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News about the EFB

News and announcements about the European Federation of Biotechnology

• Education and Training in Biotechnology: A Concerted Approach
  Yasmine Hammamet, 29/03/2006 - Professor Charlie Bryce, EFB Vice President, was invited to the First Mediterranean Congress on Biotechnology to present the opening Plenary Lecture entitled “Education and Training in Biotechnology: A Concerted Approach”. 

• Marc Van Montagu elected EFB President
  Barcelona, 23/01/2006 - Professor Marc Van Montagu, who has received numerous awards for his pioneering scientific work, has been elected new president of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB). He officially took office at the last Executive Board meeting of the Federation in Barcelona on January 14.

• EFB holds its 2005 General Assembly in Copenhagen
  Denmark, 22/08/2005 - The General Assembly, the first since the recent granting of legal status to the EFB, took place alongside the 12th European Congress on Biotechnology, also held at the Technical University of Denmark campus from the 21st to the 24th of August.

• EFB relocates to Barcelona and obtains legal status
  Barcelona, 31/05/2005 - The European Federation of Biotechnology was established as a legal entity under Belgian law in May 2005. This is the fulfilment of a process initiated in Madrid in 2001 to undertake the first major reorganisation of EFB since its foundation in 1978.