Critical Conversations: Engineering biology  - a critical technology for a critical time?

Engineering biology has been listed as the one of ’five technologies that are most critical to the UK’ in the government's UK Science and Technology (S&T) Framework. The third instalment of this Critical Conversations mini series centred around these critical technologies, chaired by Academy CEO Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, with speakers Professor Alicia El Haj FREng, Interdisciplinary Professor of Cell Engineering at the Healthcare Technologies Institute and Director of the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham; Henrik Hagemann, Academy Enterprise Fellow, and CEO and co-founder Puraffinity; and Professor Guy-Bart Stan, Professor of Biosystems Engineering and Control and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology at Imperial College London. 

Critical Conversations series

Bringing together the thoughts of leading experts from across the Academy’s networks, our Critical Conversations explore issues of relevance to global professional engineering community and wider society. Fellows, awardees, and engineering partners gather to tackle topical issues of relevance to the global professional engineering community and wider society.

This special five part series of Critical Conversations will each explore a critical technology, highlighted in the government's UK Science and Technology (S&T) Framework as quantum technologies, semiconductors, engineering biology, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications.

Catch up on all previous Critical Conversations here.

Recording notice 

Please note this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website. 

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