Message from the Director

Dear Valued Members

What a hectic month. We are just done with two major conferences, TWAS Regional Young Scientists Conference and TWAS-TWOWS-PSN-SCOPUS Young Women Regional Young Women Scientists Symposium 2009. MABIC played a big role in organizing both these conferences with the aim to promote South-South cooperation, nurturing young scientists and enabling young Malaysian scientists to network with others in the developing world. Scopus-Elsevier presented awards to top young women scientists in four categories: Life Sciences, Agriculture Science, Engineering & Technology, and Medicine during the Regional Young Women Scientists Symposium.

BioMalaysia will take off next week and hope to catch up then with all the biotech players and colleagues. It is also MABIC's wish that BioMalaysia 2009 will drive more investors and collaborators to Malaysia. Just before BioMalaysia, MABIC will be in Kelantan to organize a teachers' workshop in collaboration with the Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of Education and Universiti Kelantan Malaysia. And we will be at AIMST on the 23rd for another seminar with UPEN, Kedah and AIMST.

That is how busy MABIC is with the only hope that Malaysia will see the fruits of biotechnology soon in terms of home-grown technology, knowledge workers, and GDP growth. We hope what MABIC does make a difference to the biotech industry in Malaysia.

Till we meet again, best wishes from MABIC.

Yours sincerely

Mahaletchumy Arujanan
Executive Director