NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday emphasised the need to close the gap between practitioners of bio-sciences and regulators.
“As the bio-sciences grow and evolve, more practitioners should come into regulatory roles as well, to look at issues of bio-ethical dilemmas as well as legal questions,” he said.
Addressing the commemoration ceremony here of the 10th anniversary of the partnership between the Department of Bio-technology under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the UK-based Wellcome Trust, he said that as the partnership completes its first decade, the India Alliance should draft its priorities for the next phase.
The Wellcome Trust is a bio-medical research charity based in London, United Kingdom.
Mr Kovind said that the world was at the edge of an era of great hope as well as of great uncertainty.
Personalised and precision medicine; genomic medicine; lab-generated organs; rationalising data privacy with data use for clinical research and the larger public good were issues that offer scope for well-being but could also pose bio-ethical dilemmas as well as legal questions.
“Today, through science and technology, human beings wield unimaginable power over the future of our planet. We, therefore, have a responsibility like never before. And scientists, particularly bio-scientists, are our soldiers and generals in the battle to safeguard our planet, our species and our future,” he pointed out. (AGENCIES)
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