The African Society for Synthetic Biology (ASSB) was officially launched on 19th July 2024 during the 3rd International Conference on Synthetic Biology, AI and Biosecurity nicknamed SynBio Africa Conference Season 3 (SBA 3.0) held in Nairobi Safari Club Hotel, Nairobi Kenya from 17th to 19th July 2024.
The ASSB which is a professional, learned, non-governmental continental Association will be reputable for promoting and advancing responsible activities in the science and bio-economics of synthetic biology, biosecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the associated multi-disciplinary sciences in Africa, with other parts of the World. The Society with a pool of life sciences and multidisciplinary experts will promote safe and responsible engineering biology within the Continent.
The Membership cuts across Students (undergraduates), Graduate, Affiliate, Associate, Corporate, Honorary, Full and Fellow Members involving both Africans and non-Africans working within Africa or outside Africa.
The President (Onyeka Nwosu) and Deputy President (Dr Erick Ondari) of ASSB
The Interim Steering Committee of ASSB which was recommended by the Scientific Advisory Board of SynBio Africa was unanimously elected by the Conference and was inaugurated by Geoffrey Otim, the Interim BoT Chairman of ASSB who doubles as the CEO SynBio Africa. The Interim Steering Committee members who are expert scientists in the engineering biology field include:
Onyeka Nwosu (Nigeria) as President, Dr. Erick Ondari (Kenya) as Deputy President, Dr Mariam Laatifi (Morocco) as Vice President- North Africa, Dr Kamini Govender (South Africa) as Vice President- Southern Africa, Celia Nalwada (Uganda) as Vice President- East Africa, Dr. Jude Igborgbor (Nigeria) as Vice President- West Africa, Dieudonne Nyamaifofe (DR Congo) as Vice President- Central Africa, Dr. Nelson Ndahiro (Rwanda) as the Deputy Secretary, Charity Serwa (Ghana) as Organizing Secretary and Wendy Dogbegah (Ghana) as Publicity Secretary.
The ASSB President (Onyeka Nwosu) with the ASSB ICT Officer (J. Allan Ojera)
The Interim Steering Committee under the leadership of Onyeka Nwosu is to galvanize and Institutionalize ASSB prior to it’s first Annual General Meeting. Onyeka Nwosu in his speech, called on researchers, academicians, students, corporate organizations, companies, experts and the public with interest in Engineering Biology, AI, Biosecurity and other related multi-disciplines to immediately go the ASSB website: https://synbioafrica.com/assb/ and apply for official Membership Registration.
