The bio-technology experts have recommended that all the universities of the country may be given due representation on the National Commission on Biotechnology and urged that the Commission must provide funds for refreshment courses for scholars and teachers from colleges and universities.
Speakers at the closing session of a four-day International Symposium on Biotechnology, organised by the Institute of Biotechnology University of Sindh Jamshoro, demanded that while disbursing the research grants, equal importance may be given to Biotechnology and its share be placed in a separate head. The grant allocated may be equally disbursed among different institutions carrying out different research activities in Biotechnology.
The participants were of the view that the bio-technologists in their area of work would be helpful for promotion of the biotechnology sciences and recommended that all the universities of the Country should be given due representation in the National Commission on Biotechnology.
The scholars unanimously suggested that there should be an active Pakistan Society of Bio-technologists to provide a platform where all the bio-technologists could assemble to communicate, exchange ideas about developments, highlight difficulties faced by the bio-technologists, collaborate with different international organisations in different research fields and publish newsletter, magazine etc.
It was also recommended that there should be close and dynamic relationship between biotechnology and different biological sciences such as chemistry, biology, biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, etc.
This would translate into provision of a strong base to all biological sciences and technology.