Business and Academia Collaborate at Dubai Science Park to Shape the Science Sector
Dubai Science Park (DSP), a member of TECOM Group and the region's very first business community committed to the scientific research field, hosted a networking event in partnership with the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medication and Health Sciences (MBRU), Dubai Healthcare City Authority's initial medical university, and Al Jalila Structure, the humanitarian organisation that supports clinical study and instructional programmes, to discuss ways to enhance the UAE's healthcare sector.
Welcoming a science-focused audience to DSP, making up representatives from academic community, business and federal government, Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, Executive Director of DSP, said: "With ambitious objectives to transform Dubai into a global medical care center, we continue to create enabling platforms for our science-focused community to work together and to connect the void in between the stakeholders from government, business and academic community. Our latest networking occasion aids grow and strengthen our currently close working connections, a lot to the advantage of our DSP-based business companions from the life-science, power and setting markets.".
Dr Abdulkareem Sultan Al Olama, Ceo of Al Jalila Foundation, said, "It is our overriding goal to place the UAE at the center of medical innovation. To this end, we aim to train the future generation of researchers, build clinical capacity, fund attractive research tasks and engage the more comprehensive community. Al Jalila Foundation supplies appealing fellowship programmes for Emirati students at in your area and worldwide distinguished universities, whilst supplying temporary funding for research study jobs for UAE-based colleges and healthcare facilities. This event at DSP notes a welcome possibility for us to obtain industry understandings and find out about the sector-specific requirements.".
Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Dean of the University of Medicine and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at MBRU, said, "Producing a flourishing scientific research sector must depend on dialogue. As we grow ever much more interconnected we need to locate ways of the best ways to team up with each other. For MBRU this implies not only to create harmonies with various other universities, but with services and governments to provide modern technologies and human capacities that produce outcomes that reach the markets and eventually the individual client.".
During the event, MBRU professor offered the audience a glimpse of their study ranging from neurodevelopmental disorders, vector- birthed viral disease and antibiotic resistance, to asthma and obesity. Amongst the researchers were Professor Vaughan Macefield, Professor Physiology, Professor Norbert Nowotny, Professor - Microbiology, Dr Mohammed Uddin, Assistant Professor - Human Genetics, Dr Saba Al Heialy, Assistant Professor - Immunology, Dr Abiola Senok, Associate Professor - Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Dr Yajnavalka Banerjee, Associate Professor - Biochemistry.
The breakfast was adhered to by a trip of the DSP Laboratory Complicated that houses the first exclusive laboratories in the region. Participating DSP business companions included Amerispec Diagnostics, Dermpath Consult and Olympus Middle East, showcasing their latest modern technologies and devices utilized at DSP.
Both, Al Jalila Foundation and Mohammed Bin Rashid University have recently authorized a Memorandum of Comprehending (MoU) with Dubai Scientific research Park to mutually promote the scientific research industry in the UAE, build business synergies and support trendsetters looking for financing for scientific projects.
