{"id":90570,"date":"2020-09-03T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90570"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T08:41:06","slug":"mosti-congratulates-dr-chan-for-winning-asean-us-science-prize-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90570","title":{"rendered":"MOSTI congratulates Dr Chan for winning Asean-US Science Prize for women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"297\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dr-chan-yoke-fun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90576\"\/><figcaption>Dr Chan Yoke Fun<br>Photo courtesy of Universiti Malaya<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation\u00a0(MOSTI) has congratulated\u00a0Dr Chan Yoke Fun for winning the prestigious\u00a0ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women 2020 recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSTI, in a statement Thursday, said&nbsp;it hoped&nbsp;the&nbsp;award would&nbsp;motivate Dr Chan and her team to scale new heights in their scientific journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also hoped her winning the award would&nbsp;spur further interest among national research institutions and&nbsp;researchers especially female scientists to contribute more quality researches in the field of science and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Chan,&nbsp;the head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Malaya\u2019s Faculty of Medicine,&nbsp;received a US$20,000 cash award for her feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Chan focused her research on developing a vaccine to combat a virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease, and brain infection diseases in children, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, she has worked with local experts to raise awareness about the dangers and prevention of the virus in her community,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduced in 2014, the annual ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women aims to strengthen ASEAN&nbsp;science and technology capacity as well as gender equality and improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize seeks to award two talented, promising and early-to-mid-career female scientists from the ASEAN region working in applied science as a recognition of their academic and professional achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation\u00a0(MOSTI) has congratulated\u00a0Dr Chan Yoke Fun for winning the prestigious\u00a0ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women 2020 recently. MOSTI, in a statement Thursday, said&nbsp;it hoped&nbsp;the&nbsp;award would&nbsp;motivate Dr Chan and her team to scale new heights in their scientific journey. It also hoped her winning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":90576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}