Organized by 22 nd March 2012 Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Centre Point, Faculty of Medicine, UM Co-Joint by  games.,  mysterious gift. Ms Siti Falika Tel: or Contact Person:

TimeActivity/Event 11:00 -11:20Planning to write up your research? - Putting pen to paper. Prof Lakshmi Selvaratnam School of Medicine & Health Science, Monash University Malaysia 11:20 -11:40Research in Tissue Banking. Dr Norimah Yusof Malaysia Nuclear Agency (MINT) 11:40 -12:00Orthopaedics: Past, current & future. Dr Sureshan Sivannthan Hospital Fatimah, Ipoh 12:00 -13:30Lunch Talk (Chair Person: Dr. Balaji ) 12:00 -12:20 Research in Biomechanic by Prof Saw Aik 12:20 -12:40Research in Musculoskeletal Oncology by Prof. Dr. Vivek Ajit Singh 12:40 -13:00 Clinical Research in Spine by Prof Kwan Mun Keong 13:00 -13:20Research in Division in Joint Replacement by Prof. Dr. Azhar Mahmood Merican 13:20 -13:30Q&A 13:30 -14:00Lunch 14:00 -15:30Technology Up-date for Orthopaedics Research (Chair Person: Dr. M. R. Murali) 14:00 -14:30Global trend in the use of laboratory animal by Mr. Desmon Lee 14:30 -15:00Cutting Edge Technology in Cell-Based Research. 15:00 -15:30Revolution of qPCR into ddPCR by Dr. Caine Leong 15:30 -16:00Poster Session 16:30 -17:00Games & Prize.- Closing Ceremony ( Chair Person: Dr Amirtha Ganesh) REGISTER FORM (Free Admission): Name: ___________________________________________________________ Department: ______________________________________________________ Faculty: __________________________________________________________ Contact Number: ___________________ ___________________________ Aims: 1.To promote high quality research across all research groups. 2.To enable staff and students to meet and learn about the research carried out by NOCERAL. 3.To enable networking with invited guests from university and other organisations. NOCERAL Research Day NOCERAL Research Day is a one day event to provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary sharing of good practice in research, and as a vehicle for promoting effective collaboration within and between institutions. PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS TimeActivity/Event 9:00 -9:30Research Day Opening Ceremony ( Chair Person: Dr Amirtha Ganesh) 9:00 -9:10 Opening Speech by Deputy Dean Faculty of Medicine (Research) Prof. Dr. Tunku Kamarul Zaman 9:10 -9:20 Welcome speech by Dean, HTM (Health and Translational Medicine) Cluster Prof. Dr. Mohd Rais Mustafa 9:20 -9:30 Welcome & Opening Speech of Research Day by Director, NOCERAL Prof Dato' Dr Tunku Sara Tunku Ahmad Yahaya 9:30 -9:45Video presentation & poster exhibition tour 9:45 -10:00Tea break 10:00 -12:00Research Talk ( Chair Person: Dr. Lim Chin Keong) 10:00 -10:20Embryonic stem cell in therapeutic cloning. Prof Dr Ramli Bin Abdullah Institute of Biological Science, UM 10:20 -10:40Characterisation of Novel-Designed Mechanical Conditioning Bioreactor To Deliver Biaxial Compression on Chondrocytes Seeded in Agarose Scaffold. Dr Belinda Pingguna Murphy Department of Biomedical Engineering,UM 10:40 -11:00Cell-based Therapy: 'Omics' Technologies. Dr Sharaniza Abdul Rahim UITM, Shah Alam Register now, and get:  Interesting research talk,  Free lunch,  Games,  Mysterious gift (For registered participants ONLY) Dateline: 20 th March 2012