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competition, the carnival received For those who remember the scene, the
overwhelming response and great
participation from nearly 200 attendees.
During this whole day event, participants
visited the pop-up booths located at
Centrepoint, FOM, to grab limited-time
offers from a group of scientific companies
such as Betatech Scientific, Biomedia SPD
Scientific, Esco, Genomax Technologies,
Research Instruments and a few others.
Besides these, the games booths and
food trucks enlivened the carnival in
many ways. A special lunch talk on ‘Cell
Culture Revolution’ and ‘Challenges and
Reproducibility in Microbiomics’ was also
given by Biomedia SPD Saintifik Sdn Bhd.
A crowd was also observed at the free
health screening station set up by the
National Kidney Foundation (NKF), where
a quick 5-min screening was provided to
the participants!
The most exciting moment during the
carnival was the “3-min Pitch Your
Project” competition that attracted 17
contestants from different faculties in
the Universiti Malaya. All the contestants
did their best to deliver the findings of
their Ph.D. projects in lay-man terms
and successfully won the attention of
participants from various backgrounds.
hall was totally full! Here, we also wish
to congratulate Ms. Polly Yap Soo Xi, Ms.
Thanusha M. Ganesan and Ms. Yasoda
Priyankari Wijerathna for winning the
best presentation awards.
It is hoped that the carnival was fruitful in
providing a platform for the participants
to enhance their networking and
interaction with each other. With this,
Central Research Laboratories of FOM is
looking forward to organizing a similar
event in the near future.
“
The carnival aimed to increase
awareness within the UM
research community on the
facilities in the FOM
Research Activities
availability of the shared “
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