Fakulti Farmasi | Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM

 Menerajui Farmasi Untuk Kesihatan | Advancing Pharmacy For Health

Research Seminar: Innovation and Commercialization in Healthcare Research

On the 23rd May 2022, the Centre for Quality Management of Medicines, Faculty of Pharmacy UKM conducted the first research seminar entitled Innovation and Commercialization in Healthcare Research. In this seminar, Prof. Ian Wong shared his experience and insights on executing innovation in healthcare research and its commercialization. He elaborated on the UCL Spin-off Company that he founded, which had developed three licensed prescription-only medicines in Europe. This seminar was joined by the lecturers and students of the faculty as well as researchers from other universities and institutions from within Malaysia and overseas.

On 24th May, a closed discussion between members of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Prof. Ian Wong was held virtually. In this session, five researchers shared their innovative research and Prof. Ian Wong gave valuable advice on how to move forward with regards to its potential to be patented. His advice to all researchers is to have in mind for a research to proceed with a patent and not just publication. This is important to ensure that all stakeholders, including the public community gets the most benefit from the latest research being conducted. Thank you everyone for making this event possible and a successful one! Hopefully, everyone learns something new and is inspired to commercialize their healthcare research for a better future.