Special Committee on Biorisk Management
The SCBRM 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 |
Michael Eschbaumer (Vice Chair) | 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) |
Lisa Beuckelaere | Belgium | Biosafety responsible quality at SCIENSANO (EuRL) |
Laurie Grandont | France | Biorisk officer at ANSES (EuRL) |
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 |
Asaf Sol | Israel | Head, FMDV vaccination programme for emerging strains, Virology Department of the Kimron Veterinary Institute |
Gianpietro Maccabiani | Italy | Researcher Biosafety Officer, Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER) |
José Ignacio Varo Jiménez | Spain | Head of Integral Safety Area |
Ruth Knorr | Switzerland | Head of Biosafety, Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) |
Ulrika Allard Bengtsson | Sweden | Biosafety Officer, Swedish Veterinary Agency |
Douwe Kuperus | The Netherlands | Biosafety Officer, Wageningen BioVeterinary Research (WBVR) |
Can Çokçalιşkan | Turkiye | Researcher, Typing and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, ŞAP Institute |
Isabelle Dietrich | United Kingdom | Biosafety Officer, The Pirbright Institute |