USM having a joint laboratory between industries

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (IPPT) has collaborated with the industry in creating a laboratory that focuses on cardiovascular. The USM-ALPS Joint Laboratory for Cardiac Research, partnering with ALPS Global Holding Sdn Bhd in providing a superb platform for industrial players and IPPT academics to work together through consolidating all resources that could share in common to achieve more, with less, in order to innovate treatments for this killer disease, and hence accelerating translational research with next-generation advanced technology.

The opening ceremony of this laboratory, officiated by the Vice Chancellor of USM, Professor Dr. Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan on Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 11.30 am at the Animal Research Complex, IPPT USM Bertam.

Cardiovascular is one of IPPT niche areas under the Regenerative Medicine Cluster. USM have also signed the MoA with Zhengzhou 7th People Hospital in China for exchanging experts and staff for training and research in basic and clinical cardiology.