Francesc Gòdia, new president of the European Federation of Biotechnology
Francesc Gòdia, professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, has been elected president of the European Federation of Biotechnology.
Francesc Gòdia, PhD in Chemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and professor of Chemical Engineering at the same university, was recently elected as the new president of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB), of which he was already vice-president.
Gòdia's research activity focuses on the development of bioprocesses for the production of biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and viral vectors for gene therapy using animal cell culture and on the development of regenerative life support systems in space. He is director of the MELiSSA pilot plant, a unique European Space Agency facility on the UAB campus.
The EFB is a non-profit federation of European biotechnology-related scientific societies, academic institutions, companies and individual professionals. Its goal is to promote international, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaboration within and outside Europe with the aim of contributing to making advances in biotechnology reach society. The EFB organises multiple international congresses, workshops and symposia, such as the European Congress of Biotechnology. The official scientific journal of the Federation is New Biotechnology.