Vice-president for Research and Technology Meets with Chancellors of Medical Universities at TUMS

Vice-president for Research and Technology Meets with Chancellors of Medical Universities at TUMS
Date: 5/26/2010

TUMSPR News: The vice-president for Research and Technology, Dr. Nasrin Soltankhah met with chancellors of Tehran's three state-run medical universities in Tehran at TUMS for discussing the increases made to the states health budget and that of the National Elites Foundation on May 25, 2010.

Dr. Nasrin Soltankhah, the vice-president for Research and Technology, met with chancellors of Tehran's three state-run medical universities, Dr. Bagher Larijani, Dr. Abtahi and Dr. Razaghi in Tehran at TUMS for discussing the increases made to the states health budget and that of the National Elites Foundation. The vice-chancellors, academics and students from the four institutions participated in the meeting.

Giving the opening speech, Dr. Larijani called the presence of Soltankhah at the post an opportunity because of her great interactions and leadership which would result in the state's research development.

On achievements in scientific publications, the chancellor mentioned the recent 21st rank in Scopus among 147 countries and 40th in ESI and 34th in ISI. He later exemplified the 13000 research projects, including 3000 in biological sciences, the EU was funding or the 50% budget the United States is investing in services and health and leaving the areas to the private sector where it is present. He added that the US was spending 27 billion dollars on services and health and government everywhere were investing in health as a smart choice.

Dr. Larijani believed that attaining the goals of the 20 year plan of the country (2025) lied in boosting production of scientific papers to 35000, patents to 500 and the number of research centers to 30000 with the allocation of one-third of the state's research budget to health and medical sciences and letting the private sector to invest the second one-third was no strange at all. Allocating 30% of the budget given to health in basic sciences was normal if we looked at the situation in the US or the UK if we wished to materialize the aforementioned goals, Larijani said.

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