photo opportunity 10.30am Monday 14 May, Wellcome Trust Building reception area, University of Dundee.
Twenty high-ranking military students from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), will visit the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee on Monday, 14 May, to learn about the biotechnology industry. Their visit will help them understand the relationship between the biotechnology industry and US national security.
The students will hear a presentation on biotechnology in Scotland and Dundee from Kevin Bazley of Scottish Enterprise Tayside, and an overview of the School of Life Sciences and the Wellcome Trust Biocentre by Professor Sir Philip Cohen. The students will then visit Cyclacel Ltd and Upstate Discovery Ltd.
Joseph E. Goldberg, Director of Research at the ICAF said: "As senior decision makers, these students are required to reflect upon issues which most probably involve dimensions of biotechnology. It is vital that more of our future strategic leaders in the department of defence not only have an understanding of the nature of the biological threat but have a familiarity with the roots of biological warfare: biotechnology, its industry, and the relationship between the industry and our national security."
The ICAF is a United States Department of Defence education institution established to study national resource management. Its students come from all branches of the US military including Lt. Colonel, Commander, Colonel and Captain.
The University of Dundee is one of only five places in Europe that the students are visiting, indicating the importance of Dundee in the field of biotechnology.ENDS