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Assessing the implications of advances in science and technology for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).
A summary of a meeting on synthetic biology and gain of function, held in partnership with the US National Academy of Sciences.
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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Find out moreThis project aims to inform policymaking about cybersecurity research in the UK.
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Read the meeting reportOn 18 February 2013, the Royal Society held a seminar at the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Find out moreSummary of the Royal Society’s 2005 work on reducing the threat of biological weapons.
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Elected 2003
Professor Roderick Flower FMedSci FRS
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.
Read moreSir John McCanny CBE FREng FRS
Elected 2002
Sir John McCanny CBE FREng FRS
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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