Hi I'm Avril Robertson, I am professor of
biotechnology and director of
biotechnology programs here at the
University of Queensland. The University
of Queensland is ranked consistently in
the top ten in the world and
biotechnology that is partly due to our
expertise in teaching and the content in
our programs, but also it's due to our
expertise in research so we have
world-renowned researchers which our
students can go and work in their labs
and learn from them and also gain their
contacts and their expertise so
biotechnology is a very broad coverage of
scientific disciplines, so you could be
venturing into medicines, new biologic medicines, new drugs, new
Diagnostics, you may be in the
agriculture field looking at how we feed
the world in the future, environmental
science, how do we deal with the
pollution that we have these days,
recycling, bioprocessing so there is a
really broad area of study in
biotechnology where you apply your core
scientific skills, and the whole point is
to create new products of use to the
world so it's a very forward-looking
degree. Biotechnology is driving the
discoveries and the innovations of the
future in multiple areas across the
globe, so it impacts society, it impacts
the world. We have challenges galore
ahead of us and we all know that, and
biotechnology is one of the ways that we
can address those challenges with novel
innovations, novel solutions to the
issues that we face.
