Barcelona, 23/01/2006 - Professor Marc Van Montagu, who has received numerous awards for his pioneering scientific work, has been elected new president of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB). He officially took office at the last Executive Board meeting of the Federation in Barcelona on January 14. According to Prof. Van Montagu, one of his immediate goals for the EFB will be to “help stimulate capacity building in Europe to diminish the political attitude against transgenic plants, and therefore sometimes against biotechnology and science in general”. It is necessary that scientists “communicate with society to clarify how important transgenic plants and biotechnology in general are for Europe”, said Montagu.
