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. 2013 May;20(3):1-5.

All the Vice Chancellor's Neuroscientists: Unity to Achieve Success in Solving Malaysia's Diseases via Upgrading Clinical Services and Neuroscience Research

Jafri Malin Abdullah  1
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All the Vice Chancellor's Neuroscientists: Unity to Achieve Success in Solving Malaysia's Diseases via Upgrading Clinical Services and Neuroscience Research

Jafri Malin Abdullah. Malays J Med Sci. 2013 May.

Abstract

President Obama of the United States of America announced this April the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN for short) investment, while Professor Henry Markram's team based in the European Union will spend over a billion euros on the Human Brain Project, breaking through the unknowns in the fifth science of the decade: Neuroscience. Malaysia's growth in the same field needs to be augmented, and thus the Universiti Sains Malaysia's vision is to excel in the field of clinical brain sciences, mind sciences and neurosciences. This will naturally bring up the level of research in the country simultaneously. Thus, a center was recently established to coordinate this venture. The four-year Integrated Neuroscience Program established recently will be a sustainable source of neuroscientists for the country. We hope to establish ourselves by 2020 as a global university with neurosciences research as an important flagship.

Keywords: Malaysia; Universiti Sains Malaysia; brain science; history; mind; neuroscience.

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Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr Mohd Roslani bin Abdul Majid, Founding Dean of the School of Medical Sciences.
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Professor Dato’ Dr Omar Osman, the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Professor Dato’ Dr Rujhan Mustafa, the Director General of the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.
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The Honorable Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia.
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First batch of Integrated Neuroscience Program, candidates with lecturers involved in the neuroscience teaching program.
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Professor Dr Zabidi Azhar Hussin, 4th Dean of School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Professor Dr Aziz Baba, 5th Dean of School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Dr Shalini Bhaskar, first graduate of the Advanced Master of Medicine (Neurology) Program.
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Professor John Tharakan, started the first Advanced Master of Medicine (Neurology) Program.
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Professor Luc Calliauw, previous Head of Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium, who visited Universiti Sains Malaysia numerous times.
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Dr Muzaimi Mustapha, coordinator of Integrated Neuroscience Program, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He is the current Editor of the Orient Neuron Nexus.
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Trainee neuroscience lecturers from the Department of Neurosciences as well as the School of Medical Sciences meeting on the 24th October 2009 to decide on their PhD tracks and specialisations.
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Visiting Professor Pedro Valdes Sosa from the Cuban Neuroscience Center.
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Professor Michael Hörner who coordinated and organised the first and second DAAD workshops in Malaysia.
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Hans Reiner Polder initiated the set up of electrophysiology lab in the School of Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Launching of the ‘Pusat Perkhidmatan dan Penyelidikan Neurosains (P3 Neuro)’ known as Center for Neuroscience Service and Research, USM (CNSR) by the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia Professor Dato’ Dr Omar Osman on the 17th April 2013 in the USM, Health Campus.
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