Biology College participation in China Bioengineering Society Synthetic Biology Professional Committee (funding) preparation work
time: 2018-11-15

On November 11th, the Chinese Society of Bioengineering Synthetic Biology Professional Committee (hereinafter referred to as “Professional Committee (funding)” was unveiled in Changsha. The leaders of the Department of Life Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Promotion and Development Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China Bioengineering Society attended the unveiling ceremony. More than 140 experts and scholars from all over the country gathered together to witness the establishment of the Professional Committee.

The Professional Committee(funding) aims to promote the basic research and related applied research of synthetic biology in China, and explore important issues such as the development direction of synthetic biology research, key core technologies, and discipline construction. Professor Lin Zhanglin from the College of Biological Sciences and Engineering of our school participated in the preparatory work and served as one of the deputy directors.

Synthetic biology is an important interdisciplinary subject in the field of biological sciences and engineering that has emerged in recent years,it represents a leapof biology fromknowing life to designing life. In 2017, our school was approved by the Ministry of Education for the “Synthetic Biology and Drug Preparation” international cooperation joint laboratory.

In 2011, China officially launched the 973 topic of synthetic biology, and the national key research and development plan “Symbolic Special Project” was launched recently. This is the continuation and improvement of the former.