Date: 2/8/2011
TUMSPR News: The 12th Avicenna Festival to honors the top researchers and professors of Tehran University of Medical Sciences was held on February 6, 2011.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) held its annual Avicenna Festival which honors top researchers and professors of the institute for the 12th year on February 6, 2011 at the presence of Dr. Marzieh Vahid-dastjerdi, the Minister of Health and Medical Education and the Dr. Fatemeh Soltankhah, the vice-president for Research and Technology.
In the opening speech, Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS Chancellor, said a retrospective look at the activities in the University points to remarkable accomplishment while a look forward tells of the long way we have to go and the solid steps we have to take to top the higher education institutions in the region. He also added that the University takes up to 70% of top students participating in the National Entrance Exam for Universities and the University has been recognized as the state's scientific pole for post-graduate studies and it tries to become the regional focal point for health.
Emphasizing on keeping its competitive edge in innovation, TUMS Chancellor said the University has been trying to expand and develop its educational, research infrastructures and develop its international relations, establish new schools, quantitatively and qualitatively develop its educational curricula and empower its faculty members.
The vice-president for Research and Technology, Dr. Fatemeh Soltankhah, praising TUMS Chancellor for his concern about innovation in the University, compared the Chancellor's vision for the University to Avicenna who had mastered different fields such as mathematics, philosophy and music aside from medicine. She believed the Festival served as an appropriate practice and the cause for TUMS researchers to successfully appear in Razi Research Festival.
Comparing the state's universities, Dr. Soltankhah said some universities act as a model for other universities and TUMS is one of those that is doing its due share domestically and it is trying to excel in the international arena too.
Honoring TUMS prominent role among other medical universities in the country, the Minister of Health and Medical Education, Dr Vahid-dastjerdi, said TUMS should assume greater roles regarding its repeated success [in different festivals] and support weaker universities.
Referring to the state's rapid scientific growth-- 11 times higher than other countries-- the minister, correlated this growth to the achievements in medical science and said Iran, second in the region, follows Turkey which has a 5.5 times scientific growth in the world. She later expressed her discontent of the present scientific growth and said by this growth Iran would achieve the highest position in the region in 17 years while the state's scientific plan has envisioned a 10-year period.
Finally, the minister spoke of the great leap in pharmaceutical productions and said by the production of 9 high-tech medications, Iran has saved $ 150,000,000 and by introducing 12 more medications, this figure would rise to $ 250,000,000. She promised drugs of this type to reach 30.
At the end of the session, 14 nominees in research and 24 in education were awarded.
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