Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

December 1, 2000

CONSENT OF MCGLADREY AND PULLEN, LLP

Published on December 1, 2000



EXHIBIT 23.2


CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS


We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333- ), of our report, dated February 11, 2000,
relating to the financial statements of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc.,
included in the 1999 Annual Report to Stockholders and incorporated by reference
in the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 1999.


/s/ McGladrey & Pullen, LLP



Richmond, Vriginia
December 1, 2000