Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Innovation & Creativity Gallery Launching

UiTM Innovation & Creativity Gallery (ICG) is an initiative proposed under innovation DNA for UiTM and Local Communities 2010 - 2019 launched by the Honourable Dato' Mohamed Khaled Nordin in April 2010. The Gallery will showcase products and services created by UiTM researchers and inventors for the public and industry to view. UiTM ICG will open throughout the year to provide maximum exposure of UiTM products and services to potentials interested parties from the corporate sector, and small and medium-sized enterprise.

The products and services are displayed based on common themes developed around UiTM Community of Researchers (CORE), namely Drug Discovery and Health, Green Technology and Sustainable Development, Frontier Materials and Industry Applications, Advanced Computing and Communications, Humanities and Quality of Life, Forensic Sciences, Brain and Neuroscience.

This exhibition's theme is Drug Discovery and Health.  Twenty-six products covering potential pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and nutritional foods from Malaysia's biodiversity, devices and preparations for dental health, exercise program for geriatrics, applications of computer technology in healthcare, diagnostic kit for specific virus and post-operative patient support system.  The contributors are from Faculties of Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Sciences, Applied Sciences, Hotel and Tourism Management, Architecture, Planning and Survey, and Mechanical Engineering.

For further information on the products and services, or proposals for collaborations and or commercialization opportunities, please contact:


What is the main objectives of UiTM Innovation & Creativity Gallery?

- To be UiTM Perennial exhibition centre to promote viewing of UiTM products by the industry.
- To showcase novel and contemporary products and services of UiTM research.
- To realise commercialization of UiTM research.
- To be a platform to motivate UiTM staff and students to produce creative products.


Innovation Unit
Research Management Institute,
Universiti Teknologi MARA
40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel:  03-55442094 Fax: 03-55442096
email:  abubakar@salam.uitm.edu.my

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