CALLING FOR VOLUNTARY M&E ENGINEER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE!!!

IMPERIAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MALAYSIA
IS ASSISTING ONE OF OUR MEMBERS WHO IS HELPING TO BUILD A HOSPICE FOR REJECTED AND HOMELESS HIV/AIDS PATIENTS AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENTS.

What is this project?

The Positive Living Community is a program for treatment, care & support for rejected and homeless HIV/AIDS patients and the alcohol and drug dependents.  In their 13 years of operation, the Positive Living Community has gained respect and recognition for its work, commitment and example. It has often been an eye opener for other NGOs and public authorities. It has received several awards over the past few years from the Ministry of Health, the Sungai Buloh Hospital, Rotary Clubs and other organizations.   For more details, please visit their website at http://positivelivingcommunity.blogspot.com/

Who is requesting?

One of our members, Mr Rajkumar Periannan is appealing to ICAAM to help by asking our esteemed and qualified members to provide Mechanical and Electrical services in the course of their building the hospice for Positive Living Community.  Mr Rajkumar is involved with a group of other members in a community project with Positive Living Community.

What is the voluntary service about?

The project is to build a hospice for HIV/AIDS patients and the alcohol and drug dependents.

The group is now in need an engineer to advise them on the wiring and plumbing work.  At the same time, the voluntary service will also include the inspection of the building and look out for the electrical and plumbing work based on the confirmed layout.

Where is the place of the hospice?

The hospice will be build at:-

Lot D 1224 SU 4 Off Jalan DPP,
48100 Batu Arang, Selangor

To whom you shall contact?

If anyone of our member engineers is interested, please contact Mr Rajkumar Periannan of email id:  raj1888@gmail.com who will be more than willing to provide you with more details.

Thank you.

By order of the Elected Office Bearers of

ICAAM 2010/2011 Committee Members

It has been one month since the Imperial College Union Malaysian Society’s Malaysian Night 2011 entitled The Captain’s Journal- Hero: Wanted. The guys over at ICUMS sent us a report worth sharing out, noting that this was done by students. This is what the President of 2010/2011 had to say:

We are really grateful to have the strong support and financial contribution from the alumni. Without your kind help, our event would not have been as successful as it was.

To which we replied:

We are so happy that it was a success. But we were always confident that anything put on by you and your team will be successful.

Please find their programme booklet here for your convenience – [download id=”1″]

The aforementioned report can be found here, detailing the process they went through to make the 2 day event happen with 1,200 turnout (that’s a full house!) – [download id=”2″]

Other sponsors include the following below, and we would like to congratulate them for an event well done!

Meanwhile we would like to congratulate the incoming committee of 2011/2012, led by Sheela Ratnam!

(Effective December 14, 2010)

The Imperial College Alumni Association: Malaysian Chapter (ICAAM) is pleased to present its new Executive Committee elected during the AGM held on Tuesday, 14th of December 2010 at Sime Darby Convention Centre.

ICAAM would like to record its sincere appreciation to its out-going President, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zainal Abidin Mior Ahmad, and previous Committee members for their invaluable contribution and efforts made to further grow ICAAM’s membership.

Dear members,

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held in a months time, with the following details:

Date: 14 December 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sime Darby Convention Centre,
1A, Jalan Bukit Kiara 1,
60000 Kuala Lumpur
Dress code: Smart casual

Agenda:
7.30 pm – Arrival and Registration
8:00 to 9:00 pm – Buffet Dinner: Halia Restaurant
9:00 to 11:00 pm – AGM (Meeting room: Eugenia)

You will be expecting food and drinks, a great atmosphere to network with long lost friends and to make new ones.

Do RSVP by e-mailing RSVP@icaam.org.my with your name, e-mail/number and guest (if any).

1.  Address by Chairman
2.  To approve the audited accounts of the Association for the year ended 31 December 2007/2008/2009
3. To elect office bearers for the year 2010/2011
4. To appoint two Honorary Auditors for the year 2010/2011
5. To transact any other business that may properly be transacted at an Annual General Meeting

Map to location (click to enlarge):

By Order of the Committee

pp
Mr Lau Kin Wai
Honorary Secretary
Dated this 1 December 2010

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The form below  should be printed and filled. You may submit applications via e-mail at christopher@icaam.org.my or sent to the address stated on this page.

Nominated member
(Please state name next to position)                                     Membership No.                   Signature of Member confirming acceptance of nomination:

PRESIDENT:

VICE PRESIDENT:

SECRETARY:

ASSISTANT SECRETARY:

TREASURER:

COMMITTEE MEMBER (1):

COMMITTEE MEMBER(2):

Proposer name:                                                                  Proposer signature:

Seconder name:                                                                 Seconder signature:

Date:

Ex-vivo cellular assessment of chemo-sensitivity in lung cancer

Funded by Point Hope Investment Company

PHD SCHOLARSHIP

Closing Date: Monday 15 September 2010, 5pm

Website: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli

Click below for the full PDF to understand more and HOW TO APPLY FOR IT:

SEGi University College cordially invites all IC alumni to a talk by Professor Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Director for Biomedical Materials at Imperial College London.

The talk, entitled ‘Bio-inspired Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Biosensing’, will address Professor Stevens research into the highly interdisciplinary field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Date           : Monday, 17 May 2010
Time           : 10.00am
Venue         : Auditorium A (Right Wing), Level 2, SEGi University College
No. 9, Jalan Teknologi, Taman Sains Selangor, Kota Damansara PJU 5,
47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

I look forward to your participation in this highly intellectual discourse by an eminent expert in the field of bio-inspired nanotechnology. Please find the abstract of the lecture and the CV of the speaker below after the agenda.

Programme Itinerary

10.00am               :              Arrival of Guests & Media

10.15am               :              Arrival of VIP Guests

10.30am               :              Welcome Address by Emeritus Prof. Dr. Muhamad Awang, Vice Chancellor, SEGi University College

10.40am               :              ‘Bio-inspired Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Biosensing’

A talk by Professor Molly Stevens (Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Director for Biomedical Materials at Imperial College London)

11:25am               :              Q&A Session

11.40am               :              Press Conference

11.50am               :              Light Refreshments

12.30pm              :              End of ceremony

Thank you.

Bio-inspired Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Biosensing

Professor Molly Stevens, Department of Materials and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London

Abstract

A disagreeable side effect of longer life-spans is the failure of one part of the body – the knees, for example – before the body as a whole is ready to surrender. The search for replacement body parts has fueled the highly interdisciplinary field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This talk will provide an overview of our recent developments in bio-inspired nanomaterials for tissue regeneration and sensing. Bio-responsive nanomaterials are of growing importance with potential applications including drug delivery, diagnostics and tissue engineering. Conceptually novel approaches to real-time monitoring of enzyme action using modular peptide functionalized nanoparticles will be presented. The ability to control topography and chemistry at the nanoscale also offers exciting possibilities for stimulating growth of new tissue through the development of novel nanostructured scaffolds that mimic the nanostructure of the tissues in the body. Recent developments in this context will be discussed.

Biography

Molly Stevens is currently Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Director for Biomedical Materials at Imperial College. She joined Imperial in 2004 after a Postdoctoral training in the field of tissue engineering with Professor Robert Langer in the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT. In 2009 she was awarded the Jean Leray Award from the European Society for Biomaterials, in 2007 the prestigious Conference Science Medal from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and in 2005 the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering. She has also recently been recognised by the TR100, a compilation of the top innovators, under the age of 35, who are transforming technology – and the world with their work. Her previous awards include the Ronald Belcher Memorial Lecture Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000) and both the Janssen Prize and the UpJohn Prize for academic excellence and research. Research in regenerative medicine within her group includes the directed differentiation of stem cells, the design of novel bioactive scaffolds and new approaches towards tissue regeneration. She has developed novel approaches to tissue engineering that are likely to prove very powerful in the engineering of large quantities of human mature bone for autologous transplantation as well as other vital organs such as liver and pancreas, which have proven elusive with other approaches. This has led to moves to commercialise the technology (she is the co-founder of RepRegen and InTiGen) and set-up a clinical trial for bone regeneration in humans. In  2009 she awarded the ACES Academic Entrepreneur pan-European Amgen Life Sciences Award in recognition of her tremendous work in transforming outstanding science into innovative medical products. In the field of nanotechnology the group has current research efforts in exploiting specific biomolecular recognition and self-assembly mechanisms to create new dynamic nano-materials, biosensors and drug delivery systems.

In conjunction with his official visit to SEGi University College, Prof. Dr.J.N.B. Bell was warmly received as an Imperial College Ambassador to Malaysia during a dinner hosted by the Imperial College Alumni Association Malaysia (ICAAM) at the China Treasures Restaurant,Sime Darby Convention Center in Petaling Jaya,Selangor.

Prof Bell was not a newcomer as he had given a talk for ICAAM members during a previous visit to Malaysia in 1995. Present to welcome Prof. Bell was ICAAM President,Assoc.Prof.Dr.Zainal Abidin Mior Ahmad,Vice-President Dato’Siew Ka Wei,ICAAM former President and advisor Dr Benen Foo Ban Nyen,former ICAAM Vice-President Dr.Rozali Mohamed Ali,ICAAM Secretary Mr Lau Kin Wai,Committee members Mr.Christopher Tock and Mr.Sharifuddin Al-Manaf,alumni and guests Mr Kelvin Ong and Mr.Ng Tien Seong (the latter a former student of Prof.Bell).

Prof Bell and ICAAM exchanged the latest information updates between London and Malaysia. The ICAAM had earlier put up on the ICAAM website the presentation to be given by Prof Bell on 12th April 2010 at SEGi on “Green Technology Management and Environmental Education:Imperial College Experience” to encourage members to attend.

We also discussed the  nature of our AGM which should be coming soon in the next few months, so stay tuned to keep updated!

In conjunction with the launch of the new SEGi Bachelor of Environmental Technology (HONS)

presents you:

Green Technology Management and Environmental Education: Imperial College Experience

Date : 12 April 2010 (Monday)

Time : 10.00 am

Venue : Auditorium A (Right Wing), Level 2, SEGi University College,

No. 9, Jalan Teknologi, Taman Sains Selangor,

Kota Damansara, PJU 5, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Please find the PDF attached for your perusal: green talk

The LSE Alumni would like to extend an invitation to ICAAM members (5 seats) for this Wednesday’s talk. Hope to see you all there.

Dear Fellow Alumni,

The LSE Alumni Society of Malaysia would like invite you to a talk by Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a leading Thai academic and political scientist, on the political future of Thailand.
The details are as follows:

Date: 25 November 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm (dinner)
8pm onwards (talk)
Venue: Restaurant Rebung Chef Ismail
No 4-2 Lorong Maarof
Bangsar Park
59000 Kuala Lumpur
(Landmark: Dataran Maybank)

Tel: 03 22832119
Off: 03 2282 4776
Fax: 03 2283 4775

Kindly revert by 24th November (12pm) by confirming your attendance to lsemalaysiapr@yahoo.com.

For any enquiries, kindly contact Marina at 012-214 1028, Kevin at 016-322 6863 or Jia Jer at 016-333 6633.

On behalf of the LSE Alumni Society of Malaysia.

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“Dr Pongsudhirak is one of Thailand’s leading analysts on politics and macro-economy. He is a Thai national, based in Bangkok, with over 14 years as a political observer and commentator of Thailand and it relations in within ASEAN. As a freelance writer, he is an outspoken columnist with the Bangkok Post and well-respected for his research credentials and analytical skills, which allows him to incorporate great depth to his presentations and to facilitate and lead discussion on economic and political developments in Thailand.

He is an accomplished writer and prolific contributor of opinion and analysis, notably currently for the Bangkok Post, but is also a former contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit and a former contributing editor to the The Nation. He writes various papers and articles, including for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), the European Institute of Asian Studies (EIAS), Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies (APCSS) and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

He is regularly interviewed on television, including CNN International, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC World, Al Jazeera and local Thai news stations, and frequently quoted in international press, including Financial Times, The Economist, Time, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Straits Times, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Far Eastern Economic Review etc. and also interviewed on the world’s international radio stations.

He is an academic at the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand where he is simultaneously Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, UK, a M.A. (Hons) from The John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington D.C. USA and a B.A, (Hons) in Political Science from The University of California, Santa Barbara. USA.”

(Source: The Insight Bureau)