Building research capacity on genomic diseases stressed
Dhaka, Apr 26 (UNB) - Speakers at a function here on Thursday stressed the need for undertaking collaborative research and academic programmes on environmental issues at tertiary-level education to tackle the challenges caused by global climate challenges.
They made the observation at a views-exchange meeting on ‘genomic diseases (diabetes) and environmental issues and research in higher education between UK and Bangladeshi universities’ at the UGC (University Grants Commission) Bhaban.
UGC chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury presided over the meeting. Former UGC chairman Prof Nazrul Islam, chairman of Pharmacogenomics, Biomedical Research Centre, University of Dundee, UK Prof Colin NA Palmer, Director, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee, UK Dr John Rowan, among others, spoke on the occasion.
The experts said food, water, energy, arsenic; sanitation, gender equity and global health challenges need sustainable and equitable solutions through successful collaboration.
They also laid emphasis on establishing new research partnership and teaching alliances on environmental issues to handle the global environmental challenges, which are order of the day.
AK Azad said there are a lot of scopes of undertaking collaborative programmes in a number of areas on environmental issues these days.
He called for building greater research capacity to cope with global climate disaster.
Stressing joint academic programmes in the field of higher education, he said, “We’re looking forward to establishing such collaborations to have access to global knowledge pool.”
He pointed out that Bengali genome (PPARG polymorphism) is responsible for type 2 diabetes among Bangali patients.
UGC members Prof Dr Atful Hye Shibly, Prof Dr M Muhibur Rahman, Prof Dr Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Prof Dr Abul Hashem, Prof Dr Md Akhter Hossain, Prof Dr Pran Gopal Datta, Prof Fuad H Mallick, Prof Dr Bilquis Amin Haque, Uttara University were, among others, present.
They made the observation at a views-exchange meeting on ‘genomic diseases (diabetes) and environmental issues and research in higher education between UK and Bangladeshi universities’ at the UGC (University Grants Commission) Bhaban.
UGC chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury presided over the meeting. Former UGC chairman Prof Nazrul Islam, chairman of Pharmacogenomics, Biomedical Research Centre, University of Dundee, UK Prof Colin NA Palmer, Director, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee, UK Dr John Rowan, among others, spoke on the occasion.
The experts said food, water, energy, arsenic; sanitation, gender equity and global health challenges need sustainable and equitable solutions through successful collaboration.
They also laid emphasis on establishing new research partnership and teaching alliances on environmental issues to handle the global environmental challenges, which are order of the day.
AK Azad said there are a lot of scopes of undertaking collaborative programmes in a number of areas on environmental issues these days.
He called for building greater research capacity to cope with global climate disaster.
Stressing joint academic programmes in the field of higher education, he said, “We’re looking forward to establishing such collaborations to have access to global knowledge pool.”
He pointed out that Bengali genome (PPARG polymorphism) is responsible for type 2 diabetes among Bangali patients.
UGC members Prof Dr Atful Hye Shibly, Prof Dr M Muhibur Rahman, Prof Dr Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Prof Dr Abul Hashem, Prof Dr Md Akhter Hossain, Prof Dr Pran Gopal Datta, Prof Fuad H Mallick, Prof Dr Bilquis Amin Haque, Uttara University were, among others, present.
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