Yearly Archives: 2019
23 posts
We have lots of important pollution issues all around us. It’s not a secret or something that just experts in the matter are aware of anymore. People are getting more worried about climate change and how we can try to fix our past (and present) mistakes with the environment. To […]
Interview with Dr. Liz Rylott – Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) – Department of Biology – University of York Liz is a world leader in the development of GM and synthetic biology technologies for the phytoremediation of organic pollutants, especially explosives, such as TNT and RDX, and inorganic contaminants. […]
The Young European Biotech Network is not as young any more as the name suggests, the association has already reached the age of an adolescent: During 17 years of history a lot of interesting people that have shaped the YEBN and its projects. What are the former board members of […]
In September the YEBN visited one of its institutional members, the NGB (Nouvelle Generation des Biotechnologistes). The Biotech day is a session with a transversal nature, that approaches Biotechonology and explores it in a wide standpoint. Aside from this amazing whole day of speeches, networking oportunities and much more, we […]
You are now Task Group Leader of the Networking TG for the first time. As new task group leader, what are your goals and hopes for YEBN in 2019/20? Our main objectives for this year are to find new biotechnology associations, new institutional partners and new sponsors. We hope to […]
You started working with the YEBN team this year. As a new member of the YEBN team, what are your goals and hopes for YEBN in 2019/2020? I hope that in the near future we will find and start cooperating with new Institutional Members, discover other funding opportunities and co-organize […]
Presidents’ greeting What a great pleasure to arrive to our 3rd Newsletter this year. We have prepared for you with a continuously growing hard-working and with a team which enjoyed itself a lot to prepare this piece of literature for your summer holidays with hot topics (fighting to the heatwave) […]
The European biotech and life sciences field is becoming more applied. We are finding new methods to aid the transfer of research and ideas from academia to industry. Bringing solution ideas to tangible tools that could help the day to day lives of patients, professionals, researchers, and students. The event […]
The YEBN collaborates with the European Biotech Week promoting the #Biotechfan video contest!! The European Biotech Week celebrates biotechnology, an innovative and vibrant sector launched by the discovery of the DNA molecule back in 1953. The first European Biotech Week that took place in 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of […]
BIOTECH DAY aims to connect talented young scientists with the industrial and academic world of biotechnology About this event BIOTECH DAY aims to connect students in biotechnology, biology and pharmacy with companies in the field of health, environment, bioinformatics and consulting. Companies participating in the day have diverse profiles, ranging […]
You are now in the YEBN for the first time. And you have the role of the Communication Task Group Leader, what are your goals and hopes for YEBN in 2019? Make it a little bigger and better overall! Just keep growing and heading for all the objectives we set […]