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STAFF REPORT PESHAWAR: The experts, scientists, researchers sat together in a seminar recently held on biotechnology and discussed various avenues of improvement in this field. The speakers emphasized that there is a need to develop the biotechnology infrastructure both in academia and industry to facilitate the aggravation of the sector in order to open up new employment ventures for the students of biotechnology.
The seminar was organized by Pakistan Society of Computation Biology (PSCB); senior representative of PSCB said during the seminar, “This event is in an attempt to promote biotechnology literacy to prepare resource for future to develop innovative cost effective solutions in different sectors including health care (medical), crop production and agriculture, non food (industrial) uses of crops and other products (e.g. biodegradable plastics, vegetable oil, biofuels), and environmental uses”.
Dr Johar Ali, head of genomics at Rehman Medical Institute was present on the occasion. He said while speaking to the participants, “The undergrad students of biotechnology are deeply in fret due to scarcity of job opportunities in this field due to which an out of the box approach should be adapted by academia and students must be provided assistance apart from academic programmes and their concerns must be slashed in order to continue their studies and research in most apt manner”.