Special Committee on Biorisk Management
The Special Committee on Biorisk Management provides assistance for the development and revision of laboratory biocontainment guidance documents for FMD and similar TADs, with particular reference to the Minimum Biorisk Management Standards for FMD laboratories. It provides guidance on training initiatives, maintains an overview of development in biocontainment and it supports the needs of the FMD Biorisk management community maintaining a channel of communication with experts in Member Nations who have FMDV Biorisk management responsibilities.
Name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|
Kirsten Tjørnehøj (Chairperson) | Denmark | Biosafety Officer and Senior Scientist, Section for Veterinary Virology, Department of Virus and Microbiological Special Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Ulrika Allard Bengtsson | Sweden | Biosafety Officer, Swedish National Veterinary Institute, Sweden |
Santina Grazioli | Italy | Researcher, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER) |
Can Çokçalιşkan | Türkiye | Researcher, Typing and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Foot and Mouth Disease (ŞAP) Institute |
Michael Eschbaumer | Germany | Head of FMD National Reference Laboratory, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute; Chair of the working group on the revision of the EuFMD Minimum Biorisk Management Standards (MBRMS) |
Graeme Harkess | United Kingdom | Biosafety Officer, The Pirbright Institute; Chair of the Annex/database of accepted inactivation/disinfection methods |
Sharon Karniely | Israel | Head of FMD Laboratory, Kimron Veterinary Institute (KVI) |
Douwe Kuperus | Netherlands | Biosafety Officer, Wageningen Veterinary Research |
Ronan O’Neill | Ireland | Head of the Virology Division, Department of Food, Agriculture and the Marine, Ireland; Chair of the working group on training in biorisk management |
Ruth Knorr | Switzerland | Head of Biosafety, Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) |
An Schoonjans | Belgium | Biorisk officer at SCIENSANO (EuRL) |
Laurie Grandont | France | Biorisk officer at ANSES (EuRL) |
José Ignacio Varo Jiménez | Spain | Head of Integral Safety Area |