Understanding Pathogenicity: Providing Information about Advances in Science and Technology to the Biological Weapons Convention
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Center on Contemporary Conflict
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2014-07
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School.
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NAS will explore a new model for providing independent scientific
input to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in a way that
aligns with the interests and needs of scientific and technical experts
as well as the diplomatic and policy communities. The project will
support the intersessional program of work agreed upon by the 7th
BWC Review Conference in December 2011.
For the August 2014 BWC, NAS will focus on “What are the
fundamental gaps in the understanding needed to advance the
development of improved diagnostics and therapeutics or to
advance the assessment of pathogen risk as these may affect the
implementation of the BWC?” Continuing with the August 2015
BWC, NAS will investigate the production and delivery of biological
agents, a topic that brings perspectives from the chemical field in
addition to biology.
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Performer: National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Principal Investigator: Katherine Bowman. FY: 2014-2015
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.