How We Expect a Nobel Laureate to Behave
I consider myself fortunate to have had the experience of meeting a good number of Nobel Prize winners and also to listen to them giving …
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3 Key Facts About Red Meat Consumption and Cancer
1. Consumption of more than 500 grams of cooked red meat a week increases cancer risk Red meat includes beef, lamb and pork. Poultry including …
Is Panel-phobia a Myth or Reality?
After years of submitting research proposals whether to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (in the years of the IRPA followed by the Science …
The Need to Relook at the Quality of PhD
The Doctor of Philosophy, or in short PhD, is the highest qualification in the academic world. Each year, we witnessed the birth of new PhD …
Sometimes You Have to be the ‘Bad Guy’
Last week a colleague of mine complained to me that he was having problems facing repercussions after making unpopular decisions although he knew that those …
Reasons for the Decline in Applications for Post-graduate Programmes in UKM
At the recent senate meeting of UKM, the members were informed of the alarming decline in the number of applications for the various post-graduate training …
Should We Retain Our Senior Professors?
Lately in UKM, many if not all of the senior professors who have applied for a contract position after retirement have only been offered the …
HICOE Status – Asset or Liability?
UMBI was given a total of RM5.6 million under the HICOE programme in 2010. This amount was actually smaller than many of the LRGS projects …
My View: Planning to Buy the Next Generation Sequencing System? Think Hard!
As the genomics fraternity is busy moving into the next phase of personalised medicine, for those thinking of investing in a next generation sequencing (NGS) …