LAHORE (10-03-23): The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore signed a memorandum of understanding with Intervac Pvt, Ltd for jointly working to help industry & academia in achieving maximum potential and self-reliance on the creative scientific approach.
UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad (SI) and Intervac Chief Executive Officer Mr Ishfaq Ahmad Khan signed a MoU in a ceremony held at City Campus.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Nasim Ahmed said that UVAS is in top five university of Pakistan who have strong linkages with academia and industry for the promotion of quality of education & research as well as local products. He said that UVAS is a pure professional university which producing trained graduate every year. He shared mostly well-known poultry, dairy, food and meat industries owner are graduated from UVAS and most of them are the members of UVAS syndicate and board of studies. Representatives of Intervac vow to join hand with UVAS scientists on vaccine production, research & development (R&D) in near future.
Under the MoU, both parties will promote and strengthen cooperation and provide a platform for activities in the relevant field for vaccine development, commercialization, technical trainings and internships. They will share their knowledge, experiences, best practices, methodologies to students and experts for their capacity building. Both parties will promote faculty, experts and students to participate in conferences, symposium, workshops and seminars and jointly work on research projects related to vaccine development for livestock and poultry. They also explore opportunities to identify industry specific trainings.
