| Description | Malcolm Lilly's correspondence and papers regarding the International Organization for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (IOBB). Includes Statutes, January 1975 and notice on the IOBB written by Lilly, the current chairman, for Biotechnology and Bioengineering 17(2) 1975.
In a notice in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 1975 (see LILLY/F/276) Lilly as chairman explained that the IOBB was a non-profit organisation created in 1968 by Professors C.-G. Heden, I. Malek, G. Terui, H.G. Gyllenberg and E.L. Gaden Jr, and that it had been responsible for various training courses in biotechnology and bioengineering and sponsorship of many international symposia. UCL biochemical engineering was a member from the late 1960s and Lilly served the IOBB in a number of capacities including a period as chairman. He was elected to the honorary membership of the IOBB in 1996, one of the first two honorary members of the organisation. |