bio event
“NEED TO BUILD
AWARENESS ABOUT
EMERGING SCIENCE OF
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY”
In an exclusive interaction, Prof Pawan Dhar, Head, Synthetic Biology Group,
School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the organizing head of
iBEM 2017 shared interesting insights into the need for such an event and much
more. Read the excerpts from his conversation with the BioVoice News below:
BY RAHUL KOUL IN JNU
What was the major
objective behind
organizing such a
meeting in India?
How is it unique?
DR PAWAN DHAR,
PROFESSOR & HEAD,
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
GROUP, SCHOOL OF
BIOTECHNOLOGY,
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
UNIVERSITY.
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BioVoiceNews | April 2017
The earlier two events
organized by us helped
to create a certain
momentum and the
community was sensitized
towards emergence of
a new field. Now our
responsibility is to take
it to a new level where
we regularly have this
kind of networking
and knowledge sharing
platform in India. And
that is where we felt that