photo opportunity 11.20 am, Wednesday 8 May, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee.
Fourteen high-ranking military students from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), will visit the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee tomorrow (8/5) to learn about the biotechnology industry so they can tailor their security to the needs of the US industry.
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 from Professor Sir Philip Cohen. The students will then visit Upstate Discovery Ltd.
Joseph E. Goldberg, Director of Research at the ICAF said "As senior decision makers, these students will be required to reflect upon issues which most probably will 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, whose students comprise officers from all branches of the services (at the rank of Lt. Colonel, Commander to Colonel and Captain) or government officials from other agencies.
This is the second year the ICAF have visited the Biocentre.