She is now responsible for the entire network of ISAAA that has its presence in South East Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, USA and Latin America. She was appointed the Global Coordinator of ISAAA on. It has also emerged as a strategic partner to many key government agencies to promote biotechnology development in Malaysia. Under Arujanans leadership, MABIC has become an household name among the biotechnology community in Malaysia. This led her to being a pioneer in science communication in Malaysia. She started engaging with various stakeholders to create awareness on biotechnology. Arujanan revamped MABIC, made efforts to introduce the centre to key ministries and government agencies and forged strong relationship with international partners. MABIC at that time was barely known to biotechnology stakeholders and was struggling to build its brand and image. MABIC is part of an international organization, The International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotechnology Applications ISAAA. Arujanan joined MABIC as a Project Officer and was promoted to be the Executive Director in May 2005. She then joined the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre MABIC in Jan 2003 where she found her true calling and built a career as a science communicator. From 1999 to 2002, Arujanan was struggling to build a career and finally left Total Health Concept in 2002. She left DXN looking for another career and joined Total Health Concept just to realize that more time and efforts were spent on office politics then building a career. She left the job after 2 years to join a healthcare company, DXN but found the work ethics there to be in contradiction to her values. Being ambitious and looking to create a niche for herself, Arujanan found her tasks at IPGRI was not challenging enough for her. She then joined The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, now known as Bioversity International as a Programme Officer. However, her stint at Sandoz did not last long as the company merged with Ciba Geigy and the regional office she was working was closed down and Arujanan was retrenched. This is where she was exposed to multinational work culture, professionalism and integrity. Career Arujanan took a break from academic life after graduating with her Masters to explore work life and her career interest and started her career as a Technical and Admin Officer with Sandoz Agro Chemicals, a Swiss-based multinational company in 1992. With an ambition to become a scientist, she immediately continued her Masters in Biotechnology at University of Malaya and graduated in 1997. She then pursued her bachelors degree in University Putra Malaysia, majoring in Microbiology and Biochemistry and graduated in 1993.
She was also recognised as the Great Women of Our Time by the Malaysian Womens Weekly in their Dec 2015 issue Early and tertiary education Mahaletchumy Arujanan started her primary and secondary education at Convent Klang and continued her pre-university STPM at ACS Klang. She is a recipient of 2010 TWAS Regional Prize for Public Understanding of Science for East, Southeast Asia and Pacific Region, and has been listed as one of the prominent women in biotechnology law and regulations by Biotechnology Law Report. She founded the countrys first biotechnology newspaper, The Petri Dish. She was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the field of biotechnology by the 7th edition of The Scientific American Worldwide View: A Global Biotechnology Perspective Journal.
She joined MABIC in Jan 2003 as a project officer and later took over as the executive director in May 2005. She has a bachelors degree in biochemistry and microbiology from University Putra Malaysia, and a Masters in Biotechnology and PhD in Science Communication from University of Malaya. Arujanan was born in Klang Valley, Malaysia in year 1969 to a Tamil school headmaster. She currently works as the Global Coordinator of International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications and executive director of Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre. Mahaletchumy Arujanan is a Malaysian scientist of Indian origin.
0 kommentar(er)
