12 March 2014
The International
Scientific Symposium on Emerging Diseases was opened here by Minister of Health
Mam Bunheng. The two-day event gathered Cambodian and regional researchers as
well as French and international experts. Many prominent French research
institutions and foundations, and the French Nobel Prize for Medicine, Barré-Sinoussi
also joined the symposium.
Prof. Vincent Deubel,
Director of the Institut Pasteur of Cambodia said that medical research and
cooperation between local, regional and international experts will bring about
new solutions to combat and prevent effectively the spread of infectious
diseases to Cambodia as well as to other countries in the region. The Institut
Pasteur of Cambodia which currently hosts more than 100 Cambodian and French
researchers is recognized as a high-level scientific reference center on
communicable infectious diseases (encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya, malaria)
at both national and regional levels.
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