Biodiversity Centre hosts NGO founder
KUCHING: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) hosted the founder and chief executive officer of Thought for Food, Christine Gould yesterday. SBC stated that Gould was recently appointed by the United Nations (UN) to serve on the Advisory Committee for the UN Food Systems Summit. “Our team had a wonderful time with Gould. She is a visionary […]
Webinar on herbal research and development
KUCHING: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre will be hosting a webinar on Herbal Research and Development Claims on June 30. It will be moderated by an expert, Professor Dr Jamia Adzina Jamal from the Drug Herbal Research Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, Centre for IDEA. Dr Jamia will share the discovery of modern and innovative applications deployed to […]
Seeking best way to expand business
KUCHING: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) together with Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit (TERAJU) is exploring the way forward to expand business and collaboration opportunities in SBC’s LitSara as well as community projects related with bioresources. SBC received delegates from TERAJU led by its chief executive officer Datuk Md Silmi Abdul Rahman who was accompanied by head […]
Helping rural folk thrive through essential oils
KUCHING: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) has signed a Benefit Sharing Agreement (BSA) for the LitSara®️ project with six indigenous communities in an effort to promote the importance of biodiversity conservation, among others. It holds out a three-fold benefit to the participating indigenous communities in terms of recognising and respecting the communities’ right to biological resources […]
SBC webinar on botanical drug development next Friday
KUCHING: The Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) will host a webinar titled ‘Botanical Drug Development in the Malaysian Herbal Industry: Issues, Challenges and Breakthroughs from the Perspective of a Biotechnology Company’. The webinar on Aug 27 at 3pm via Zoom will be delivered by Professor Dr Aman Shah Abdul Majid, head of the Department of Pharmacology, […]
