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Dual-Use Research of Concern, Biosecurity and GMO Contained Use Course & Certification
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Dual-Use Research of Concern, Biosecurity and GMO Contained Use provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, practices, governance frameworks, and regulatory expectations for managing research that may present biological security and safety concerns.
This Dual-Use Research of Concern, Biosecurity and GMO Contained Use course provides in-depth knowledge of Dual-Use Research of Concern (DURC), biosecurity principles, biological risk assessment, responsible research practices, research oversight, information security, and measures to prevent the misuse of biological research. The course also covers GMO contained use, including risk assessment, classification of contained use activities, containment principles, laboratory controls, waste management, emergency procedures, regulatory requirements, and safe handling practices. Learners will develop practical knowledge required to identify and assess biosecurity risks, apply appropriate risk-based controls, understand institutional oversight responsibilities, manage GMO contained use activities, and support responsible and compliant research practices. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating their understanding of DURC, biosecurity, and GMO contained use principles and requirements.
Who Should Enrol?
- Biosecurity and Biosafety Professionals
- Researchers and Laboratory Scientists
- Laboratory Managers and Supervisors
- Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Professionals
- Life Sciences and Biomedical Research Professionals
- Biological Safety and Biosecurity Officers
- Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance Professionals
- Research Governance and Institutional Oversight Professionals
- Professionals involved in GMO contained use activities
- Academic and University Research Professionals
- Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Healthcare, and Research Organisation Professionals
- Professionals seeking practical knowledge and certification in DURC, biosecurity, and GMO contained use
What you will learn
Build a strong understanding of Dual-Use Research of Concern (DURC), biosecurity principles, biological risk assessment, responsible research practices, and the potential misuse of biological research.
Learn practical approaches to identifying and managing biosecurity risks, including risk-based assessment, oversight frameworks, information security, responsible communication, and controls for research involving biological agents and technologies.
Develop practical knowledge of GMO contained use requirements, containment principles, risk assessment, classification of contained use activities, laboratory controls, waste management, emergency procedures, and safe handling practices.
Gain an understanding of regulatory and governance frameworks for DURC, biosecurity, and GMO contained use, including institutional oversight, documentation, training, incident reporting, compliance, and responsible research management.
Course Syllabus
- 1.1 The problem this course addresses
- 1.2 Research of concern: the definition
- 1.3 Dual-use in the export control sense
- 1.4 Biosafety and biosecurity are different disciplines
- 1.5 Who is responsible for what
- 1.6 Why context changes the answer
- 2.1 The seven categories of experiment
- 2.2 Agent-based and outcome-based scoping
- 2.3 Screening a proposal
- 2.4 Assessing benefit against risk
- 2.5 Proportionate mitigation
- 2.6 Recording and reviewing the assessment
- 3.1 What gain-of-function actually covers
- 3.2 Potential pandemic pathogens
- 3.3 How the oversight regime got here
- 3.4 The policy that never commenced
- 3.5 The current United States position
- 3.6 How this reaches a United Kingdom organisation
- 4.1 There is no statutory regime for the idea
- 4.2 The UK Biological Security Strategy
- 4.3 What funders require
- 4.4 Trusted Research, NPSA and RCAT
- 4.5 The National Security and Investment Act
- 4.6 Visitors, students and registration schemes
- 5.1 Three regimes that stack
- 5.2 Schedule 5 and the duty to notify
- 5.3 The access list and police powers
- 5.4 Directions, offences and appeals
- 5.5 Specified animal pathogens
- 5.6 Import, transport and plant health
- 6.1 The architecture of United Kingdom export control
- 6.2 What is controlled in the life sciences
- 6.3 Technology and intangible transfers
- 6.4 The United Kingdom does not have deemed exports
- 6.5 Catch-all and end-use controls
- 6.6 The academic exemptions and their traps
- 6.7 Licences and getting advice
- 7.1 Contained use and why it is a security control
- 7.2 The risk assessment and the classes
- 7.3 Notification, consent and the statutory periods
- 7.4 The safety committee as a governance body
- 7.5 Where modification becomes research of concern
- 7.6 Contained use, deliberate release and the boundary
- 8.1 Personnel security and insider risk
- 8.2 Physical security and accountability
- 8.3 Cyber and information security
- 8.4 Screening synthetic nucleic acid
- 8.5 Publication and pre-publication review
- 8.6 The international framework
- 8.7 Institutional governance
- 8.8 Incidents, escalation and reporting
- 9.1 The six decision points from proposal to publication
- 9.2 The eight points where biosecurity oversight fails
- 9.3 Assigned rather than assumed responsibility
- 9.4 Building an institutional oversight system
- 📘 Bonus: Dual-Use Research of Concern, Biosecurity and GMO Contained Use eBook (Free with purchase)
Course Benefits
eBook
Access the course content in eBook format, which can be downloaded and read on your device.
CPD Points
Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.
Certification
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
Affordable
You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.
Flexibility
The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.
Keep Up to Date
You will stay up to date with a fast-moving field: the United States oversight position, which changed twice between 2024 and 2026; the United Kingdom Biological Security Strategy and its implementation reporting; funder expectations on research with misuse potential; nucleic acid synthesis screening standards and their transition deadlines; the strategic export control lists, which are updated approximately twice a year; and the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2014.
Learn from Industry Experts
The content is written by practitioners in research governance and GxP quality, and is built directly on primary sources: the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, the Export Control Act 2002 and Export Control Order 2008, the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2014, the Specified Animal Pathogens Orders, the UK Biological Security Strategy, funder statements, United States federal policy and executive orders, and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Every requirement taught names its instrument, and the course is explicit about which widely repeated claims could not be verified.
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