Governance
The EngBio IRC is headed by a Leadership Team of two academic co-chairs, a coordinator, and two assistants. Guidance is provided by a Steering Committee and Advisory Board. A series of subcommittees and working groups support our activities.
Leadership Team
Co-chair
Co-chair
Coordinator and Events Manager
Events and Comms Assistant
Communications Assistant
Advisory Board
The Advisory board is tasked with advising the IRC Leadership Team and Steering Committee on all aspects of the programme, policy, activities and future directions of the IRC. In particular to assist the IRC in raising the institutional, national and international profile of Cambridge as a hub for engineering biology research.
- Prof. Tom Knight (Ginkgo Bioworks)
- Dr. Michael Daniels (Evonetix)
- Prof. Drew Endy (Stanford University; BioBricks)
- Prof. Tom Ellis (Imperial College London)
- Prof. Susan Rosser (University of Edinburgh; SynthSys)
- Prof. Anne Osbourn (John Innes Centre; Science, Art and Writing (SAW) Trust)
- Prof. Julius Lucks (Northwestern University)
- Prof. Petra Schwille (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
Reports
The Engineering Biology IRC reports annually to the Research Policy Committee.