The European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) was established by European scientists in 1978. It is a non-profit federation of national biotechnology associations, learned societies, universities, scientific institutes, biotechnology companies and individual biotechnologists working to promote biotechnology throughout Europe and beyond.
Its mission is to promote the safe, sustainable and beneficial use of life sciences, to promote cutting edge research and innovation, to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and international cooperation, to improve scientific education and to facilitate an informed dialogue between scientists, the biotechnology industries and the public.
The EFB has more than 25,000 individual members and seven divisions:
Biobased Materials Division
Biocatalysis Division
Bioengineering and Bioprocessing Division
Biopharmaceutical Division
Environmental Biotechnology Division
Microbial Biotechnology Division
Plant, Agriculture and Food Division.
The EFB Central Office (ECO) is located in Barcelona.
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European Congress on Biotechnology
The European Congress on Biotechnology (ECB) is a conference for academic and industrial biotechnologists, organised by EFB.
The first congress was held in Interlaken, Switzerland, in 1978, and inaugurated the federation. The congress is held every second year.
Other events
The EFB, together with its divisions, organises specialised biotechnology events, such as:
Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe (ASBE)
Recombinant Protein Production (RPP)
Green for Good (G4G) series
Microbial Stress
Conference on Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi (PYFF).
Journals
New Biotechnology is the EFB's official journal, a peer-reviewed publication issued bimonthly by Elsevier since 2008. The federation also publishes the open-access EFB Bioeconomy Journal, which covers research and policy relating to the bioeconomy.