January 28, 2011

Biotech emerges as world’s major industry


STAFF REPORT LAHORE: The biotechnology has become world’s major industry to produce allout preventive vaccines against human as well as livestock.

“Pakistan could progress leaps and bounds by adopting the new vista of research and developing sciences,” University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammad Nawaz said.

He was addressing the inaugural session of national workshop titled, "Molecular Diagnostics" organised by UVAS institute of biochemistry and biotechnology in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC) held here last week.

"Pakistan is importing preventive diagnostic and therapeutic biological for use in animals and human worth billions of dollars and only the poultry import is nearly Rs 6 billion per annum,” he said. He emphasized upon the pharmaceutical entrepreneur and businessmen to make join hand with UVAS with its unique project Lahore Bio Technology Park.

http://www.technologytimes.pk/mag/2011/jan11/issue04/biotech_emerges_as_world.php 

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