Malaysian Society of RNA Science is delighted to co-host the visit of Professor Odir Antônio Dellagostin to Penang!

Together with the Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, we warmly invite you to a special seminar:

Reshaping the Geopolitics of Knowledge and Biomedical Innovation

📅 Date: Friday, 30 October 2026
🕙 Time: 10.00 am (MYT)
📍 Venue: INFORMM Conference Room 1, Universiti Sains Malaysia
💻 Online: bit.ly/INFORMMseminar4

About the Speaker
Prof. Odir Dellagostin is a Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, and a CNPq Level 1A Research Fellow. He trained as a veterinarian at UFPel and earned his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Surrey, UK. His research covers molecular biotechnology and recombinant vaccines, notably against leptospirosis, and he coordinates Brazil’s National Institute of Science and Technology in Veterinary Vaccines. He has led Brazil’s state research foundation FAPERGS and the national council CONFAP. He is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

What to Expect
Prof. Dellagostin will speak both as a bench innovator and as an architect of national science policy. He will examine:

🔹 Decentralising Vaccine Innovation: How home-grown R&D pipelines for neglected zoonotic and tropical diseases challenge the historic North–South monopoly on technology transfer.

🔹 Scientific Sovereignty & Global Health Equity: Practical frameworks for building self-sustaining regional biotechnology ecosystems that can respond to local endemic diseases and future pandemics.

🔹 Redefining Research Geopolitics: Shifting from passive receipt of biomedical patents to collaborative, South-driven intellectual property and cross-border scientific diplomacy.

Researchers, students and anyone interested in biomedical innovation and science policy are welcome to join us in person or online. See you there!