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The National Centre for Biosecurity was established at ANU in 2006 to facilitate greater academic engagement with biosecurity challenges facing Australia, its immediate neighbourhood, and the world.

The NCB almost exclusively deals with the human aspect of biosecurity. Interests include but are not limited to, infectious diseases, biological weapons, bioterrorism, biotechnology, nanotechnology, laboratory safety, environmental contamination and the impacts of disease on economies and governments.

The centre’s approach to biosecurity is multi-disciplinary and collaborative. Centre members come from a wide variety of disciplines including microbiology, epidemiology, law, ethics, psychology, and international security studies.

The Centre has recently joined the International Council for the Life Sciences

In partnership with the University of Sydney
Centre for International Security Studies

National Centre for Biosecurity: Signing Ceremony

On 2 September 2008, the National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) will officially become a joint-enterprise between The Australian National University and The University of Sydney. This important event will be inaugurated by the signing of an agreement between the two universities by Professor Ian Chubb, Vice Chancellor of ANU, and Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.

The signing ceremony will be followed by the launch of a book, Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences, authored by NCB members Professor Seumas Miller and Dr Michael Selgelid. Professor Miller will be available at the ceremony to provide some comments on the book and to sign copies. He will be introduced by Professor Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney.More

Date: Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Time: 3 - 5pm
Venue: Sutherland Room, Holme Building, University of Sydney (Main Campus)

Please open pdf file to view invitation

Please RSVP to Jon Herington (j.herington@usyd.edu.au or (02) 9351 5739) if you wish to attend.

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