KARACHI: The four-day 8th International Symposium-Cum-Training Course on Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, organized by Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, concluded here on Thursday at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi.
The symposium recommended that the alarming scenario in countries like Pakistan demands urgent attention to increase awareness about healthy lifestyles and the highly adverse effects of chewing various ingredients (like Pan, betel nuts, Gutka, etc.) on one hand and screening programs for early detection of breast and mouth cancer on the other. The symposium also called on the lawmakers to legislate in both federal and provincial assemblies the disease of cancer as a mandatory reportable event like many infectious diseases for instance Covid-19. It was also recommended that a strict surveillance program for highly infectious diseases needs to be implemented to check and contain diseases like the Congo virus, Ebola virus, etc.
Addressing the closing ceremony, Prof. Dr. Atta-ur Rahman, Professor Emeritus and former Federal Minister for Science and Technology, appreciated the ICCBS administration for organizing such a useful symposium. He also highlighted the importance of high-quality open distance education and said that ICCBS has created a useful website at the Latif Ebrahim Jamal Science Information Center that exciting initiative allows individuals from anywhere in the world to benefit from tens of thousands of excellent courses without registration or payment.
Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, the Coordinator General OIC-COMSTECH, and UNESCO CHAIR on Medicinal and Bio-Organic Natural Product Chemistry ICCBS said, “Our students are in fact our real wealth, who are the future of the country.”
Prof. Dr. Farzana Shaeen, Director of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, thanked the organizers, especially Prof. Dr. Asmat Saleem, faculty, staff, students, and volunteers for playing a key role in the organization of the international event. She hoped that the conference would be meaningful for the participants, especially young scholars, and said that this meeting would foster stronger research ties between participating scientists representing different regions of the world.
Foreign delegates, including Dr. Paul Denny from the UK, Dr. Xiao-Ping Wang from China, and Dr. Muriel Cuendent from Switzerland, also expressed their views on the occasion. They said that we should work together on rare diseases which are neglected. Their concluding message was “Sit down together, Work together, and Cheaply make Orphan drugs together”
They said that Dr. Panjwani Center had become a center of excellence for quality research on molecular medicine. This center has hastened the pace of development in the field of molecular medicine. The foreign participants also acknowledged the hospitality and warmth of the people of Pakistan during the four-day symposium. In the end, the Symposium Coordinator Prof. Asmat Salim presented a vote of thanks
Over 600 scientists, including 70 scientists from 26 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameron, Canada, China, Greece, Hungry, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, Uganda, UK, USA, Yemen attended the international symposium held with an aim to bring together the leading experts in the field of molecular medicine
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