BioVoice News April 2017 Issue 11 Volume 1 | Page 60

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. 60 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