TWAS/BVA2008.NXT Program
TWAS/BioVisionAlexandria.NXT 2008*-----------Friday, 11 April 2008 | 09:00-10:00 | Opening Session (Small Theater) - Yehia Zaky, Head, Academic and Cultural Affairs Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
- Magdy Madkour, Professor, Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute (ALARI), Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University (Egypt)
- Tarek Hussein, President, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Egypt)
- Mohamed Hassan, Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World-TWAS (Sudan)
| Break | 10:30-12:00 | Funding Organizations (Small Theater)
Chair: Yehia Zaky, Head, Academic and Cultural Affairs Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
Rapporteur: Nefertiti Adly - Joel Breman, Senior Scientific Advisor, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (USA)
Research Training Opportunities Supported by the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health - Adel El Zaim, Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Center-IDRC (Canada)
Science for Humanity - Alaa El-Sadek, President, the Arab Regional Unit, WAYS (Egypt)
| Lunch Break | 14:30-17:00 | Funding Organizations (Small Theater)
Chair: Magdy Madkour, Professor, Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute (ALARI), Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University (Egypt)
Rapporteur: Nefertiti Adly - Indridi Benediktsson, Directorate-General for Research, Health, European Commission (Belgium)
- Mona Ayoub, Deputy Director, DAAD Office in Cairo (Germany)
German Funding Programmes for Science and Research - Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, Programme Coordinator Research, Development and Innovation Programme (Egypt)
- Dianna Derhak, Director, Business Development, EPOS USA and Co-Chair Oxford University Conferences on Innovation and Technology Transfer for Global Health (USA)
| Break | 17:30-19:30 | Table Discussions (Meeting Room F and Meeting Room H-Library B1) - Moderator: Mohamed Ihab Elmasry, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (Egypt)
| 20:00-22:00 | Dinner (Gathering point: Registration Desk) | TWAS/BioVisionAlexandria.NXT 2008*-----------Saturday, 12 April 2008 | 09:00-11:00 | Success Stories in Research Funding in the Developing World (Small Theater)
Chair: Salah Soliman, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University (Egypt)
Rapporteur: Nefertiti Adly - Prabuddha Ganguli, Elected Fellow, the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences(India)
- Erdan Dong, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Planning, National Natural Science Foundation of China (China)
- Mohammad Afzal, Acting Regional Adviser, Research Policy and Cooperation, WHO/Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office in Cairo (Pakistan)
Funding Research for Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO: From Research to Policy and Practice - Gabrielle Persley, Chair, Doyle Foundation (UK)
| Break | 11:30-13:30 | Panel Discussions: (Small Theater)
Chair: Rafik Nakhla, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
Panelists: Mohammad Afzal, Mohamed Ihab Elmasry, Mona Ayoub, Indridi Benediktsson, Joel Breman, Dianna Derhak, Erdan Dong, Alaa El-Sadek, Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, Prabuddha Ganguli, Gabrielle Persley | Lunch Break | 14:30-15:30 | Reporting and Closing Session: (Small Theater) - Reporter: Nefertiti Adly
- Yehia Zaky, Head, Academic and Cultural Affairs Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
| 15:30-16:30 | BA Tour |
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