FiercePharma: Biological Engineering MIT Professor on Solving Unmet Medical Needs and Increasing Gender Equity in Biotech Biological Engineering MIT Professor on Solving Unmet Medical Needs and Increasing Gender Equity in Biotech The Tufts Daily: Alum explores biological engineering, encourages diversity in STEM at MIT Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD, is Director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies and the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, a Professor of Engineering, MIT, and a biotech entrepreneur. The catalogue of international reference standards for biological products is updated following the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization meetings. See below for the catalogue, listed in alphabetical order and includes additional information.

Understanding the Context

Biologicals are a class of medicines made from living cells taken from plants, animals or bacteria. These cells are use in creating many types of health care products, including vaccines. This group of medicines also includes products derived from human blood and plasma for the treatment of many life-threatening diseases and for surgical procedures. This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, on Thursday, 22 May 2025, highlights the inherent connections between people and the natural world through the theme, “Harmony with nature and sustainable development”.

Key Insights

It underscores the need to achieve the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss – interlinked with ... Gender interacts with but is different from sex, which refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of females, males and intersex persons, such as chromosomes, hormones and reproductive organs.