The 24th World Congress of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine was held in Sunway Convention Centre, Petaling Jaya, 20-24 August 2007.
There were over 300 poster presentations in the Congress. 10 Best Poster Awards were given out. The following members of MSH have won the Best Poster Awards:
Professor Ainoon Othman's group (UKM):
Poster title: Rapid detection of Hb Constant Spring mutation by allelic discrimination using real time PCR.
Associate Prof Datin Noor Hamidah Hussin's group (UKM):
Poster title: Real time quantification of bcr-abl fusion gene in chronic myeloid leukaemia
Professor Cheong Soon Keng's group (IMU):
Poster title: Development of dendritic cell-based vaccine for cancer therapy
Dr Maha Abdullah's group (UPM):
Poster title: Identification and characterisation of two differentially expressed genes in acute myeloid leukaemia.
Dr Gan Gin Gin and Dr Veera SN's group (UMMC):
Poster title: Dendritic cells and cytokine levels as predictors of acute graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Congratulations!
(via email sent from Prof. SK Cheong)