Photo Gallery

Magdy Madkour, Assistant Director General of ICARDA

Sir Peter Lachmann, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at University of Cambridge & Head of Microbial Immunology Group at Centre for Veterinary Science

Marc Van Montagu, Chairman of the Molecular Genetics Department at the Institute Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries

Speakers  Room

Speakers using the Wi Fi connection in the speaker room

Frank Walsh, Executive Vice President of the Discovery Research at Wyeth, during his lecture

from left: Marc Van Montagu, Alain Godard, David McConnell and Magdy Madkour

Luis Herrera Estrella, Head of the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies

Vincent Vadez s presentation

Vincent Vadez, Senior Scientist at ICRISAT, Crop Physiology Laboratory, GT-1 Biotechnology in India

Kazuo Shinozaki, Director of Plant Science Center at Riken Yokohama Institute

Adel Mahmoud, President of Merck & Co. Inc. during his lecture in Plenary Session 2

Dean Jamison, Senior Editor of the Disease Control Priorities Project & Fellow in Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

Sir George Alleyne, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Region

Ibrahim Badran, Former Minister of Health in Egypt, during his speech

M.S Swaminthan, UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology, giving his presentation in Plenary Session 3

Christian Patermann, Programme Director for Biotechnology, Agriculture & Food Research at the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission

Joel Breman, Senior Scientific Advisor at the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, answering a question in the Press Room

Elias Zerhouni responds to one of the questions in the Press Room

A section of the Press Room

Sandy Thomas, Director of The Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Clive James, Chairman and Founder of ISAAA, during his lecture

David McConnell, Professor of Genetics at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity College in Dublin

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Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director and Head of Division of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis Research Centre

Florence Wambugu, Founder and CEO of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI)

The Africa Biotechnology Panel speakers

Abdallah Daar (right), Professor of Public Health Sciences and Surgery at the University of Toronto, and George Sarpong (left), Professor of Environmenal Law at University of Ghana

Gojka Roglic, Technical officer Diabetes at the World Health Organization

Phil Riley, Boerge Diderichsen and David McConnell

Launching La main a la Pate from left: Mostafa Abdel Samie, Noha Adly, Denis Louche, Ismail Serageldin, David Wilgenbus, Hoda El Mikaty and George Charpak

Mostafa Abdel Samie, Director of the World Bank/ European Union Education Enhancing Program, Program Planning & Monitoring Unit

Gojka Roglic, Jaakko Tuomilehto and Wiam Younes