Speakers at EBSA Thursday - How ISO standards and technical specifications can support you in your daily life as BSO (and how you can support ISO with your technical knowledge as BSO)

Name: EBSA Thursday - How ISO standards and technical specifications can support you in your daily life as BSO (and how you can support ISO with your technical knowledge as BSO)
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EBSA Thursday - How ISO standards and technical specifications can support you in your daily life as BSO (and how you can support ISO with your technical knowledge as BSO)

Thursday, January 11, 2024 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CET) EBSA

About the speakers

Ursula Jenal

Working address:

Jenal & Partners Biosafety Consulting,
Magdenerstrasse 1
4310 Rheinfelden
Switzerland

Tel:+41 61 723 28 58
Email:ursula.jenal@jenalpartners.ch

Academic Education and Degrees

PhD in Microbiology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zürich,
Post Doc in Environmental Engineering and Sciences at Stanford University

Present Professional Position

Since 2001, executive manager of Jenal & Partners Biosafety Consulting advising in-dustry, academia and authorities on an international level on all issues related to bi-osafety and biosecurity: risk assessment of contained use activities; risk assessment of nano-bio-materials; environmental risk assessment for gene and cell therapy and re-combinant vaccine clinical trials and market authorisation applications; guidelines on safe use of cell cultures, plant pathogens, transport, waste treatment; biorisk manage-ment systems, crisis management, biorisk management audits, ISO140001 audits, bi-osafety training, safe procedure design, project management. She has been involved in capacity building projects in South East Asia.

Special Remarks

1996-2000 senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment acting as co-author of the Swiss Biotechnology Regulations harmonised with the corresponding EU directives.

Member of EBSA since 2001, acting as secretary for 4 years, member of the Educa-tion and Training Working Group until 2018 and representing EBSA at the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention meetings.

Member of the certification body of IFBA representing EBSA 2016 – 2020.

Co-chair of the CEN workshop process to develop the CWA16335 on BioSafety Pro-fessional (BSP) competence, and project leader for the development of ISO Technical Specification TS5441 Competence Requirement for Biorisk Management Advisors to be published in February 2023.