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Cybersecurity research
This report recommends new standards, kitemarks and incentives for stronger cybersecurity, supported by changes to research and innovation policy.
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)
Assessing the implications of advances in science and technology for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).
Synthetic biology
A summary of a meeting on synthetic biology and gain of function, held in partnership with the US National Academy of Sciences.
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- Nuclear arms control and disarmament
- 2016 Biological and toxin weapons convention
- Cybersecurity research
- Synthetic biology and gain of function
- Chemical weapons convention
- Biological weapons convention
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Nuclear arms control and disarmament
A policy brief prepared with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in advance of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) taking place in May 2010.
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2016 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) 8th review conference
Assessing the implications of advances in science and technology for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).
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Cybersecurity research
This project aims to inform policymaking about cybersecurity research in the UK.
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Sackler Forum: Trends in synthetic biology and gain of function and regulatory implications
A summary of a meeting on synthetic biology and gain of function, held in partnership with the US National Academy of Sciences.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention
On 18 February 2013, the Royal Society held a seminar at the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Biological weapons convention statement
Summary of the Royal Society’s 2005 work on reducing the threat of biological weapons.
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Professor Roderick Flower FMedSci FRS
Elected 2003
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Professor Roderick Flower FMedSci FRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2003
Professor Rod Flower
Professor Rod Flower is a pharmacologist who made major advances in understanding how anti-inflammatory medicines exert their therapeutic effects.
He is interested in 'science and security issues' and chaired the Royal Society’s Scientific Aspects of International Security Committee and the 'Brain Waves' panel that produced the ‘Neuroscience, conflict and security’ report.
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Sir John McCanny CBE FREng FRS
Elected 2002
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Sir John McCanny CBE FREng FRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2002
- Member of Dowling Review on University Business, Royal Academy of EngineeringAssessment Panel, US/Ireland Research Innovation , Royal Irish AcademyRegius Professor Emeritus, Institute Of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), Queen's University Belfast
Professor John McCanny
John McCanny is an international authority on special purpose silicon architectures for digital signal and video processing, and cryptography.
His awards include a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham Medal. Professor McCanny chairs the Royal Society’s project ‘Cybersecurity research: a vision for the UK’.
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