ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

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The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) is an international organisation operating since 1987 within the framework of the United Nations System. Its mandate is to provide a centre of excellence in research and training, with special attention to the needs of developing countries and countries in transition. Organised into two Components - one in Trieste (seat of the General Management) and the other in New Delhi - and a network of 33 Affiliated Centres, the ICGEB currently has a membership of 66 countries.

The Centre carries out its cooperation activity through the research programmes of its own laboratories, training courses, offers of fellowships and scientific collaboration with its Affiliated Centres. The scientific services it provides include technical assistance in carrying out research projects, a telematic network for the analysis of human and non-human genome sequences and the transfer of know-how to the industrial sector through an innovative patenting policy.

The ICGEB plays an important role in promoting the applications and the sustainable use of biotechnologies, and can count on a series of instruments for the international dissemination of scientific information, whose use by the United Nations is the subject of a specific agreement between the ICGEB and the UN Secretariat. The Centre also cooperates with other prominent international organisations on programmes concerning the protection of biodiversity and biosafety (placing on line a bibliographic data base on biosafety and risk assessment for the release of genetically modified organisms), as well as the application of Article X of the Convention on Biological Weapons, in order to ensure international cooperation in these crucially important fields.

 

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