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The European Federation of Biotechnology is governed by an Executive Board comprised of representatives from Industry and Academia. Reporters may obtain biographies of other executives by contacting the EFB Central Office.
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Em. Prof. Marc Van Montagu President, European Federation of Biotechnology Together with his colleague Prof. Jeff Schell, Em. Prof. Marc Van Montagu discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering in plants. He has received numerous outstanding awards for his pioneering work. Read more. |
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Prof. Charlie Bryce Vice President, European Federation of Biotechnology Professor Bryce is Head of School of Life Sciences at Napier University, Chairman of the EFB Task Group on Education & Mobility, Secretary General of the European Association for Higher Education in Biotechnology and Visiting Professor at Zhengzhou University in China. Read more. |
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Prof. Bernard Rentier Vice President, European Federation of Biotechnology Bernard Rentier is Vice-Rector and Professor of Virology and Immunology at the University of Liège. Since its creation in 1991, he chairs BioLiege, the association of academic & corporate biotechnologists of the Liege area. He also chairs Eurovar, a foundation for the study of varicella and zoster in Europe. Read more. |
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Prof. Brian Clark Vice President, European Federation of Biotechnology Brian Clark is Prof. of Biostructural Chemistry at the University of Åarhus in Denmark. His expertise involves decoding of the initiation of protein synthesis and the structural elucidation of transfer RNA. His current research interests centre on relation structure and function and identifying functional protein in functional genomics. Read more. |
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Prof. Jeff Cole Vice President, European Federation of Biotechnology Jeff Cole is Professor of Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and Deputy Editor in Chief of FEMS Microbiology Letters. His major scientific experiences include regulation of anaerobic bacterial metabolism, nitrate and nitrite reduction to ammonia, bacterial electron transfer pathways and pathogenicity of bacteria. Read more. |
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Christian Suojanen Secretary General, European Federation of Biotechnology Christian Suojanen is Secretary General of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB), and a strategic advisor on biotech sector initiatives, new ventures, venture capital and business development. He maintains a particular focus on industrial biotechnology and chairs the new pan-European Industrial Biotech & Finance Forum initiative. Read more. |
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