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Perspectives in Systems and Synthetic Biology

1st Dec 2009

This event brought together speakers from Industry, academia, and government funding bodies who gave their visions on the future of systems and synthetic biology.

Introduction - John McCarthy

External Speakers:

Duncan McHale (AstraZeneca) - Systems biology in the pharmaceutical Industry - Opportunities and challenges.

Merlin Goldman (Technology Strategy Board) - Commercial opportunities of systems and synthetic biology

Malcolm Skingle (GSK) - Will systems biology and academia drive pharma to greater productivity?

Cory Brouwer (Pfizer) - Systems biology - finding a path in pharma

Hagan Bayley (RSChem) - What's the point of speculative academic research?

Sascha Losko - Biomax

Colin Harrison - CIKTN

Markus Fischer - IASB

Hans-Peter Meyer - Lonza

Rosie Hutchings - Biofocus

Nicolas Guernion (EPSRC), Prabhat Sakya (BBSRC) and Ian Kimber (Faculty of Life Sciences and MRC)

MIB Speakers:

Systems biology - Introduced by Pedro Mendes

Synthetic biology - John McCarthy, David Leys and Simon Webb.

Training - Hans Westerhoff

 

for further information please contact Dr Ros Le Feuvre