Biosafety & Biosecurity Symposium

Jointly organised by NUS Medicine & Biorisk Association of Singapore

Date: 15 January 2018

Time: 2:00 – 5:30pm

Venue: National University of Singapore

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

MD6 Centre for Translational Medicine

Lecture Theatre 36 (Level 3)

Slides available for members here.

Time (pm) Programme
1:00 – 2:00 Registration
2:00 – 2:05 Welcome & Opening Address
2:05 – 2:50 Keynote Address:

“Terrorism in this Era”

Prof Rohan Gunaratna

International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU

2:50 – 3:10 Biosecurity Risks in Biomedical Laboratories – Is Your Laboratory Prepared?

Dr Sabai Phyu 

NUS Medicine BSL3 Facility

3:10 – 3:40 Tea & Safety Exhibition
3:40– 4:00 Rethinking Biosafety

Dr Se Thoe Su Yun

Ministry of Health, Singapore

4: 00 – 4:20 Safety in Human Biomedical Research

Dr Sumita Anant

Duke-NUS

4:20 – 5:30 Safety Exhibition