Announcement

SINGAPORE & EUROPE FORGE DEEPER TIES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES THROUGH MILESTONE COOPERATION AGREEMENT

Associate Professor Dr Victor Hoe of the University of Malaya, Malaysia, has won one of the two ILO Master Fellowships for the Occupational Safety and Health course at the ILO Turin School of Development, University of Turin, Italy.

The International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare (IRCCH) formed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) launched first-of-its-kind communication training programmes for healthcare professionals in Hong Kong.

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) won numerous awards at the recentInvention, Innovation & Design Exposition (iidex 015), an annual International Exhibition and Competition organised by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).

University of Malaya Student won the Best Poster Award at the 8th ACCMS conference at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan from June 16-18 2015

DRC-HUBO finished all eight assignments in less than 45 minutes, taking first place among 24 international teams and claiming the USD 2 million prize offered by a US defense research agency.

A*STAR scientist and National University of Singapore professor recognized for pioneering work in the development of 3D and PET/CT imaging.

Contributions to the development and popularization of the aberration corrector for electron microscopes recognized.

In their Nature paper, UM Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri and PhD student Md Adli Md Ali report the first observation of the very rare decay of the B0s particle into two muon particles.

The Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) has announced that Ms Subathra Sinniah, a Ph.D student at the University of Malaya, is one of the 2015 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry.

The Earth Journalism Network has created the Climate Communications Innovation Fund to support the development, adaptation, and introduction of novel story telling methods focused on the human dimensions of climate change.

Ken’ichi Nomoto is a recipient of the 2015 Marcel Grossmann Award for his pioneering work in uncovering the role of binary systems in the evolution of massive stars. The award will be presented during the 14th Marcel Grossmann meeting in Rome, Italy, on July 13.

A team of students from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus has won the HSBC Malaysia Business Case Challenge 2015.

A Book analysing and describing plants and selected food based on the verses of the Quran and Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and authoured by researchers of The National University of (UKM), was launched.

The launching ceremony was held on 15 May at PolyU campus with PolyU President Prof. Timothy W. Tong and Dr Edwin Leong, Chairman of Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation, as the officiating guests.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) held the Second Inauguration of Endowed Professorships at the Jockey Club Auditorium

A key priority of the program is to develop evidence, innovations and policies for improved health, healthier food systems, and the prevention of food-related non-communicable diseases.

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has become the first global university to offer MA in Education in Sri Lanka.

A team of students from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) emerged as champion at the AIESEC Social Startup Challenge 2015.

Malaysia Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) in partnership with Novartis Malaysia and supported by the Ministry of Education and Industry Centre of Excellence (ICoE), Healthcare Cluster hosted the first ever to be held in the country: The Malaysia BioCamp 2015.

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) has won the 2015 United Nations Population Award.

The Aga Khan Foundation Canada launched "Together: An Exhibition on Global Development" on April 22, 2015 in Ottawa, featuring the work of 21 Canadian organizations, including IDRC, that are helping to improve the quality of life in the developing world.

Professor Kenichiro Itami's MBLA 10th Anniversary Special Lecture is now online on the Banyu Life Science Foundation website.

Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA) III - 2015-2017 Deadline for Proposals June 19, 2015 Expression of Interest due May 27, 2015

There is still time to register for the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2015) hosted at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, May 15 – 18 2015.

Singapore 13 April, 2015 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) on 13 April announced three research projects, which are supported under their strategic alliance. Each project could receive a grant of up to S$300,000 per year.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) hosts a two-day summit - The CAE-HKAES Joint Summit on Innovation and Technology Industry in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) from 13-14 April 2015 in Hong Kong.

Prof. Keiko Torii of WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Washington receives the 2015 Fellow of ASPB Award.

Dr Chan Yoke Fun, from Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya has been selected as one of the 15 L’Oréal-UNESCO 2015 For Women in Science International Rising Talents.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) entitled “South Korea Prepares for Drone vs. Drone Combat,” appeared in The IEEE Spectrum.