BIOLOGY, BIOTEHCNOLOGY & HEALTH:

"Interdisciplinary Approaches in Bioscience"

Chair: Dr Zehor BELKHATIR (UK)

The interdisciplinary approach, which uses mainly a problem-centric strategy connecting knowledge from different disciplines to examine and investigate complicated real-life problems, is omnipresent in the biology and health sciences. This year AAF-SU biology, biotechnology, and health (BBH) theme will emphasize the importance of Interdisciplinarity across specialties, centered around the bioscience field. We will highlight the importance of the ability to translate research and innovation into practical, useful applications. We will introduce various current methodologies across different areas, e.g., educational, engineering, computer science, physics, technology, entrepreneurship, and marketing, which are being used to deal with higher-level complex bioscience-related questions.

A rich and diverse program has been put in place to cover broad areas of topics, including:

● Cybergenetics

● Clinical leadership

● R&D in pharmaceutical industries in Algeria

● Clinical education

● Marketing and developing an idea into a business and entrepreneurship

● COVID vaccines

● Computational oncology

● Immune-based therapies

● Technical evaluation and registration of pharmaceutical products

● Development of a research proposal, and grant writing

● Soft skills development (CV/interview preparation/effective presentation of research work)

The participants will also have the opportunity to practice some of the tips learned during lectures about soft skills development by presenting themselves and their research works.

The main learning outcome of the program is to adopt new techniques in multiple areas allowing participants to learn, develop and evaluate explanations that address scientifically rather than field-oriented bioscience questions. The ultimate goal 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.

“We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline,” by Sir Karl R. Popper, philosopher of science.

Targeted Audience:

Graduate students, researchers, faculty members from a life/medical sciences, physical science or engineering, computational and mathematical science background who wish to learn and/or conduct leading-edge bioscience research. Technical staff from pharmaceutical/medical companies could also benefit from the offered program and are welcome to register.