Two Bangladeshi students attend BioCamp in Tokyo

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FE Report
Two Bangladeshi students have recently been exposed to few of the top world figures in the field of biotechnology and business.
Biotechnology is now a key to any national economy as well as the global industry as far as the future is concerned.
Sagar Sen, an MBA final semester student of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University (DU), and Sadia Mahboob, a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) student of the DU, attended the three-day international conference on biotechnology held in Tokyo. It concluded on October 8 last.
Novartis and its affiliates have been organising the event since 2004. The first one took place in Taiwan.
Bangladesh, for the first time, took part in the BioCamp, arranged by Novartis Bangladesh and also won prizes.
The conference styled as Novartis Biotechnology Camp 2007 (BioCamp) brought together the industry experts, renowned academics and top bioscience and business management majors.
"We showed the benchmark of Bangladesh's pharmaceutical industry and acquired in-depth knowledge about the newest developments in the biotechnology industry from the globally renowned experts. We also learnt to develop cutting-edge expertise and management skills needed for attaining success in biotechnology business," said Sadia Mahboob.
Sagar Sen, another participant of the conference, told the FE that Bangladesh should improve the standard of the curriculum of 'pure science' to facilitate development of R and D in the pharmaceutical sector, a thrust sector announced by the government.
Sagar became one of the outstanding performers winning accolades from all the contestants and panel of judges.