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Commiting himself as a representative of the legislature in the steering comittee, Keynote speaker
Representative Angelo Palmones of AGHAM Party List emphasizes the challenge of increasing more
champions to push forward the cause of biotechnology in promoting the public welfare in the 8th National
Biotechnology Week celebration at Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Quezon City, November 26.
Staff of DOH welcomes
delegates to the 8th National
Biotechnology Week.
Winners of the Biotech Campus
Journalism Contest strike a pose
with Representative Palmones.
The theme for the competition
is dubbed “The Benets and
Potentials of Modern Crop
Biotechnology in the Philippines.”
Representative Palmones, who has been an
advocate of biotechnology in the country,
posited three major points in pushing forward
the thrust of biotechnology - breaking
misconceptions against biotechnology,
inadequate policy environment, and widening the
base of biotechnology champions.
Representative Palmones bares that
biotechnology is a powerful tool in the creation
of wealth from human capital as well as
from biodiversity. He promised the younger
generations for a better policy environment by
pushing House Bill 844 otherwise known as an
Act promoting the Growth of a Biotechnology
Industry in the Philippines and Creation of
Wealth from Biodiversity.
The proposed bill creates for the Philippine
Bioindustry Research and Development Center
which shall develop and market competititve,
biologically-based technologies and products and
establish a state of the art facilities for research
and study.
Likewise, the proposed bill also creates for the
guarantee fund in the amount of Php 500 million
to be sourced fromthe Agricultural Competitive
Who arethe nextbiotechscientists?
Keynote speaker AGHAM Party
List Representative Angelo Palmones
posits the challenge of producing
more champions and engaging younger
generations in biotechnology.
8th National Biotechnology Week
Bioteknolohiya paran sa
Kalikasan, Kalusugan,
Kagandahan, Kabuhayan
at Kaunlaran
OK ang 5K sa
Kalusugan Pangkalahatan:
Mamamayan at Kalikasan GATEWAY MALL,
ARANETA CENTER, QUEZON CITY,November 26 - 30, 2012
Enhancement Fund to provide guarantee venture
capital invested in biotechnology companies. Such
funds can be used as nancial grants to technology
start-ups with agricultural and aquaculture related
products and services for seed capital and for
subsequent expansion.
Furthermore, Assistant Secretary Paulyn Jean
Ubial, in behalf of the Department of Health
which spearheaded the observance of the week-
long celebration, iterated the message of Secretary
Enrique Ona that the said department is focusing
on vaccine products for immunization. It is said
that vaccine production on rotavirus, pentavalent
and pneumonococcal vaccines are still the most
cost-effective public health intervention that can
prevent and control diseases.
Meanwhile, in response to the challenge of
Representative Palmones to younger generations,
the Philippine Science Journalists Association Inc.
(PSciJourn), AGHAM Party List, the International
Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech
Applications and the Southeast Asian Regional
Center for Graduate Study and Research in
Agriculture-Biotechnology Incformation Center
awarded young journalists in the nationwide
Biotech Campus Journalism Contest.
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MakingMediaadvocatesof biotech
Encouraging media partners
and practitioners to promote
biotechnology
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Biotechnology
explained and
made simple
GATEWAY MALL,
ARANETA CENTER, QUEZON CITY,November 26 - 30, 2012
Spearheading the 8th National Biotechnology
Week, the Department of Health, together with
the Departments of Agriculture, Education,
Environment and Natural Resources, Science
and Technololgy, Trade and Industry, Interior
and Local Government, and the Commission on
Higher Education, worked with several media
partners in increasing public understanding and
knowledge on the benets and impacts as well as
the safe and responsible use and application of
biotechnology in the country.
DOH Assistant Secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial
shared that there are around 155 biotechnology
drugs and vaccines that are approved for use and
the biopharmaceutical industries are still working
A jampacked venue of more than 300 students,
local government units, national and regional line
agencies graced the rst scientic forum of the
8th National Biotechnology Week sponsored by
the Department of Agriculture.
hard to develop more life-saving biotech products.
Media practitioners, as stressed by the panelists, plays
a critical role in breaking misconceptions, changing
behavioral patterns and increasing awareness of the
public for biotechnology.
Among the speakers for the media forum were Dr.
Candida Adalla of the Department of Agriculture,
Assistant Secretary Dr. Paulyn Jean Ubial of the
Department of Health, Dr. Virginia Novenario
- Enriquez of the Department of Science and
Technology and Dr. Evangeline Castillo of the
Department of Enviornment and Natural Resources.
The media forum was hosted by Dr. Aristotle
Carandang of the Department of Science and
Technology.
The forum engaged the common Filipinos with
issues ranging from food and agriculture, health,
environment and the promises of biotechnology in
the near future. Dr. Evelyn Mendoza, member of
the National Academy of Science and Technology
explained in plain terms what
biotechnology is and how it
impacts the life of a common
Filipino. Dr. Candida Adalla, on
the other hand, shared that the
global facts and current reality
of poverty and malnutrition
leads to the increasing need for
biotechnology.
Dr. Nina Gloriani of the UP
College of Public Health,
tackled biosafety for health while
Dr. Leuvina Tandug, Assistant
Director of the Department
of Environment and Natural
Resources focused on
biotechnology for environment.
Bioteknolohiya paran sa Kalikasan, Kalusugan,
Kagandahan, Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran
OK ang 5K sa Kalusugan Pangkalahatan:
Mamamayan at Kalikasan
Dr. Candida Adalla,
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Virginia Novenario - Enriquez
DOST, PCIEERD
Dr. Evanegeline Castillo
DENR, ERDB
How biotechnology affects to
a simple Juan de la Cruz
The logo seeks to emphasize
contemporary and formal
representation that are exclusive
of all the beneciaries of
biotechnology. The logo was
inferred from the theme:
Bioteknolohiya para sa
Kalikasan, Kagandahan,
Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran.
About 500 delegates attended
the 1st scientic forum on
Biotechnology for Filipinos.
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Students ennjoy answering quizes on
biotechnology in one of the booths
during the 8th National Biotechnology Week