UNESCO Chair On ‘Medicinal And Bio-Organic Natural Product Chemistry’ At The International Centre For Chemical And Biological Sciences…
(ICCBS), University of Karachi (KU).
The University of Karachi and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Friday entered an agreement to mutually establish a UNESCO Chair on ‘Medicinal and Bio-organic Natural Product Chemistry’ at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi (KU).
Vice Chancellor (VC) KU Prof Dr Khalid Mehmood Iraqi signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in the absence of UNESCO officials in a ceremony held at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry KU, said a statement on Friday.
Earlier, UNESCO Director General (DG) Audrey Azoulay had signed the same MoU with the KU at her office in Paris on October 2, 2020. The UNESCO Chair was approved in UNESCO General Assembly this year.
Chairman Prime Minister’s Task Force on Science and Technology, Prof Dr Atta-ur Rahman, Director ICCBS Prof Dr M Iqbal Choudhary, and many other officials and scholars attended the ceremony at the HEJ institute.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Khalid Iraqi expressed gratitude to the UNESCO officials for their support, and termed the signing of MoU as a landmark occasion for the University of Karachi.
Speaking about setting up the UNESCO Chair on ‘Medicinal and Bio-organic Natural Product Chemistry’ at the ICCBS-University of Karachi, Prof Khalid Iraqi said that the objectives of the Chair were important in term of their impact, adding, that this Chair would strengthen south-south and south-north cooperation.
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