Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research held a stakeholder workshop titled ‘BTRI’s Role in Biomedical Research for Improving the Quality of Health Services-2025’ on Monday, said a press release.
The workshop was held at the IFST auditorium of the BCSIR.Â
Chairman of the council, Samina Ahmed was present as chief guest; and member, development, Kazi Anwar Hossain; member, finance, Roknuzzaman; member, science and technology, Hosney Ara Begum; and council secretary Mohammad Shahidul Haque Patwary were present as special guests.
The chief guest of the workshop and the chairman of the BCSIR addressed the participants and said, ‘BCSIR was working for the welfare of the countrymen. So those of you who are wealthy in society or involved in business and research can open new business horizons with the methods invented by the BTRI or the BCSIR.’
The workshop was presided over by the BTRI acting director and chief scientific officer Md Abdus Sattar.
He mentioned, ‘The BTRI is the newest research laboratory of the BCSIR. All the scientists here are relentlessly conducting research to make this research center state-of-the-art.’
Being a stakeholder, S M Abdur Rahman, former chairman of clinical pharmacy and pharmacology department, Dhaka University, requested the authorities to spread the services of the BCSIR to the remote areas of the country.
With the overall support of Md Abdur Rahim, senior scientific officer of the BITRI, the workshop was attended by more than 60 industrial organisations, researchers and academics from various universities.