Team:Hong Kong HKU/safety

Safety

During our initial discussions, apart from the human practices and the experiments, our group was actively thinking about biosafety. From the choice of our Chassis to our reagents, we made sure that they were as safe as possible as we are targeting to make an easily accessible diagnosis tool. To further this discussion and to be critiqued we actively sought input from the general public during our public engagement events at the Join School Science exhibition (add a link here). We also conducted a biosafety meetup ( add a link here) where we invited all Hong Kong iGEM teams and also teams from Shenzhen to talk about the work and critique biosafety measures taken by other teams. Lastly, we also invited a speaker from a biohacker space called DIYBIO to understand the difficulties and measures taken in “non-academic” Labs.

Our team submitted the "About our Project" Form and "About our Lab" Form in June 2017 and both forms have been approved.

Still worried? Scroll down for the stringent policies in our laboratory:

Before our project started in June 2017, all of our members attended a laboratory introductory session, or 'lab tour', where rules, guidelines, and procedures of common equipment operations were given by the laboratory technicians from the School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU. Laboratory sessions were always under the supervision of lab technicians.