BIOLOGY, BIOTEHCNOLOGY & HEALTH:
"Bridging the Edges Between Industry and Life Sciences"
Chair: Dr Zehor BELKHATIR (UK)
Program Description:
The basic and applied life sciences branches, including human healthcare, are among the most valuable and strategically important sectors for different countries across the World, especially during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic where we have been more appreciative of life sciences and the interaction between biotech and academia.
This year AAF Summer University “Biology, Biotechnology, and Health” topic will envision to highlight the importance of both: the industrial and research/academic life sciences fields. Their best-emerging research and technologies will be introduced and shown. We will also feature how they tackle higher-level complex bioscience-related questions.
Covered topics:
The envisioned program is broad and will cover basic concepts, advanced techniques, and the most recent scientific and technological achievements in the field. The main topics of the program will include:
• Regularity framework for food supplements and medical devices,
• Development and effects of drugs on the immune system
• Development of vaccines
• Phytovigilance,
• Imaging modalities and uses in the health system
• Pharmacovigilance in industry,
• Quality assessment in Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
• Marketing,
• Developing an idea into a business,
• Entrepreneurship, … and many more.
Desired Learning Outcomes:
The main learning outcome of the program is to enable participants to learn about developments in the industrial LS field, in addition to the academic one, allowing them ultimately to appreciate more the importance of collaborative and interdisciplinary work (across academics (scientists), regulators, health services (clinicians), industrial partners (companies) in the life sciences sector which is key in bringing lifechanging innovations to patients, or solution concepts to bioscience challenges more quickly.
The goal of the program is also to open the discussion floor between participants and instructors and build a network of multiple actors in various fields in Algeria and abroad to build future collaborative projects that will answer real needs and solve problems encountered in Algeria.
Who Should Attend the Course?
Graduate students, researchers, faculty members from a life/medical sciences, physical science or engineering, computational and mathematical science background, and technical staff from LS industries (pharmaceutical, medical, …etc.) who wish to learn and/or conduct leading-edge research in industrial and/or academic LSs sector.
“The peace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve richworld diseases. This is attractive science. It’s a science that people want to work on”
By Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft).
