To help ensure global public health, safety and security by safeguarding the opportunities offered by advances in the life sciences and their application through the promotion of best practices, standards and codes of conduct.
Terence Taylor will participate in a panel discussion at the 106th Annual Meeting of APSA on September 2-5, 2010, in Washington, D.C. This year's theme is “The Politics of Hard Times: Citizens, Nations, and the International System under Economic Stress.”
About Us
The International Council for the
Life Sciences (ICLS) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
dedicated to enhancing global biological security and safety
and reducing the risks of the misuse of the life sciences.
Founded in December 2005, the membership-based ICLS provides
a forum for the sustained engagement of the life sciences
community and governments on a global basis. The ICLS operates
internationally and works cooperatively to build networks
to help reduce biological risks.
The ICLS has identified priority areas for enhancing biosafety
and biosecurity.
International best practices and standards,
Curricula for biosecurity and biosafety,
Shared language and common methodology for assessing
biological risks regardless of origin,
Specialized briefings for policy officials on the full
spectrum of risks, and
Building local and global networks of life scientists
and policymakers.
Ongoing activities and partnerships
are taking place in