{"id":1336,"date":"2021-04-15T04:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2021-04-16T01:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:12:37","slug":"mahathir-science-award-msa-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/mahathir-science-award-msa-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahathir Science Award (MSA) 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]The Mahathir Science Award recognises the best science and technology-based contributions and innovations towards solving problems of the tropics. The award is conferred to individuals, institutions or organisations who have made internationally recognised breakthroughs in the fields of:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 MSA was open to Tropical Medicine and Tropical Natural Resources category. The evaluation and<br \/>\nselection process of the winner was carried out by ASM from 3 February until 2 July 2020.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>The 2020 MSA Winner is<\/strong><br \/>\nSir Professor Alimuddin Zumla from the Tropical Medicine category.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>2020 MSA Winner, Sir Professor Alimuddin Zumla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c in recognition of his exceptional, globally-acknowledged, health-policy<br \/>\nrelevant research, capacity development and advocacy contributions to the<br \/>\nunderstanding of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment,<br \/>\nand control of Tuberculosis, other respiratory tract infections and emerging<br \/>\npathogens with epidemic potential.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mahathir Science Award Foundation (MSAF), ASM and International Science Council Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ISC ROAP) jointly organized seven TropScience Webinars themed The Future Belongs the Tropics. These webinars aimed to increase visibility, build awareness of the goals of the International Conference on Tropical Sciences (TropSc) 2021, and attract participants to the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-excellence-in-the-sciences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}