MyCRS Symposium and Annual General Meeting at the Pharma+BioAsia Conference

The CRS Malaysia Local Chapter (MyCRS) took part in Pharma+BioAsia 2016 as a Knowledge Partner. The meeting was held September 28–29 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MyCRS’s role was to promote CRS as a whole in the conference and to organise a two-hour session, the MyCRS Symposium in the area of drug delivery and controlled release. MyCRS also sponsored a best poster award at the conference. The annual general meeting took place immediately after the symposium. MyCRS, which formed two and a half years ago, currently has 98 members.

The following MyCRS officers were elected for 2016–2018: Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin, president; Ng Shiow Fern, deputy president; Farrukh Zeeshan, secretary; Mohd Hanif Zulfakar, treasurer; and Lik Voon Kiew, postgraduate representative. There is also a ten-member nonexecutive council.

Over the past year, MyCRS has held several events. First was a drug delivery seminar held in conjunction with the International Medical University (IMU) in September 2015. Second, MyCRS held a professional development workshop “Nanomedicine: Myth or Reality,” co-organised with IMU. Finally, at the end of August, MyCRS participated in the drug delivery seminar series held at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. The speaker was Claire Martin (School of Pharmacy, University of Wolverhampton, U.K.), who presented “Mucoadhesive Buccal Tablets Based on HPMC and Polaxamer 407 for Controlled Delivery of Chlorhexidine.”