Examples of Activities and Resources on Biosecurity
from Academies and Scientific Unions
U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (2004)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10827
Royal Society – Wellcome Trust: Do no harm: reducing the potential for the misuse of life science
research (2004)
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@policy_communications/documents/web_doc
ument/wtx023408.pdf
InterAcademy Panel (IAP) – International Council for Science (ICSU) – InterAcademy Medical
Panel (IAMP): 1st International Forum on Biosecurity (2005)
http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/projects-activities/archived-projects-and-activities/biosecurity
InterAcademy Panel (IAP): Statement on Biosecurity (2005)
http://www.interacademies.net/10878/13912.aspx
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB): Code of Ethics of the
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2005)
http://www.iubmb.org/index.php?id=155&0
U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences
(2006)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11567
Royal Society – IAP – ICSU: Report of the international workshop on science and technology
developments relevant to the BTWC (2006)
http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2006/8245.pdf
International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS): IUMS Code of Ethics against Misuse of
Scientific Knowledge, Research and Resources (2006)
http://www.iums.org/about/Codeethics.html
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: A Code of Conduct for Biosecurity (2007)
http://www.knaw.nl/Pages/DEF/28/449.bGFuZz1FTkc.html
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC): Impact of scientific developments on
the Chemical Weapons Convention (2007)
http://media.iupac.org/publications/pac/2008/pdf/8001x0175.pdf and Multiple Uses of Chemicals (2007)
http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2007/2906/pp2_2005-029-1-050.html
Polish Academy of Sciences: The Advancement of Science and the Dilemma of Dual Use: Why We
Can't Afford to Fail (2007)
http://www.english.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236:internationalconference-on-dual-use&catid=57:archive&Itemid=88 (see also special issue section of Science and
Engineering Ethics, 16:1 (March 2010) http://www.springerlink.com/content/1353-3452/16/1/)
Israel National Security Council and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities:
Biotechnological Research in an Age of Terrorism (2008)
http://www.academy.ac.il/asp/about/reports_show.asp?report_id=48
Royal Society: Royal Society activities on reducing the risk of the misuse of scientific research (2008)
http://royalsociety.org/Royal-Society-activities-on-reducing-the-risk-of-the-misuse-of-scientific-research/
Académie des sciences (France): Les Menaces Biologiques - Biosécurité et Responsabilité des
Scientifiques (2008)
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/activite/rapport/rads1008.htm
Uganda National Academy of Science: Promoting Biosafety and Biosecurity within the Life Sciences:
An International Workshop in East Africa (2008)
http://www.nationalacademies.org/asadi/PDFs/UNAS.pdf
IAP – IAMP – IUBMB – International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) – IUMS – Hungarian
Academy of Sciences: The 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity: Summary of an International
Meeting (2008)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12525
Chinese Academy of Sciences – IAP – OECD: Workshop on Biosecurity (2008)
http://english.im.cas.cn/ns/es/200908/t20090826_34257.html
Uganda National Academy of Sciences: Establishing and Promoting Standards and Good Laboratory
Practice (GLP) for Running Safe, Secure, and Sustainable Laboratories in Africa. A Regional Workshop
(2009)
http://ugandanationalacademy.org/downloads/LAB%20report[1].pdf
Royal Society – International Council for the Life Sciences: New approaches to biological risk
assessment (2009)
http://royalsociety.org/New-approaches-to-biological-risk-assessment/
U.S. National Academy of Engineering: Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research:
What's Been Learned? What Should Be Done?: Summary of a Workshop (2009)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12695
Royal Society – OECD – U.S. National Academies of Science and Engineering: Opportunities and
Challenges in the Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology: A Symposium (2009)
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/stl/PGA_050738
U.S. National Academy of Sciences – Académie des sciences (France) – Academy of Sciences of
IR Iran: Joint Statement by Participants on Science, Ethics, and Appropriate Uses of Technology (2009)
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12921&page=89
IAP – IUBMB – IUMS – BEP – Polish Academy of Sciences: Workshop on Promoting Dual Use
Education in the Life Sciences (2009); Challenges and Opportunities for Education about Dual Use
Issues in the Life Sciences (2010)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12958
Uganda National Academy of Sciences: The Scope of Biosafety and Biosecurity in Uganda: Policy
Recommendations for the Control of Associated Risks. A Consensus Study Report (2010)
http://ugandanationalacademy.org/downloads/Scope%20of%20Biosafety%20and%20Biosecurity.pdf
Royal Society: Brain Waves – Neuroscience, Conflict and Security (Module 4) (2011)
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/brain-waves/conflict-security/
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering – Royal Society and Royal
Academy of Engineering – U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of
Engineering: Six Party Symposia on Synthetic Biology (2011-2012)
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/stl/synthetic_biology/index.htm
U.S. National Academy of Sciences – TWAS: The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
– Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International
Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13270
IAP – IUBMB – IUMS – Chinese Academy of Sciences – U.S. National Academy of Sciences:
Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention:
Summary of an International Workshop, October 31 to November 3, 2010, Beijing, China (2011)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13113
Life Sciences and Related Fields – Trends Relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention (2011)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13130