Several Filipino scientists formerly based abroad lend their expertise as the Philippines seeks a better understanding of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I cannot find the words to call it right now, but the situation calls for all healthcare practitioners to step up or else COVID-19 will ravage our world with fear, disease and death. It is our time, and we will stand up to this bully of a disease,” he said.Garcia is an expert in biomedical research, consulting and biotechnology enterprise. With his extensive experience in the field, he currently heads the multi-awarded Disease Molecular Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory.
He plays an important role in battling the coronavirus in the country as he leads the national databasing of laboratories with polymerase chain reaction to assist the Department of Health in testing potential coronavirus samples.Dr Sarmiento is a Balik Scientist who specializes in clinical and public health informatics and health data science.
Now based in the Philippines, Sarmiento leads the Data Warehouse Team of FASSSTER, a project of the DOST-PCHRD’s that seeks to fight COVID-19. After returning to the Philippines as a Balik Scientist in June 2015, she established a research program on natural products drug discovery at the Center fo Chemical Biology and Biotechnology in University of San Agustin. Incidentally, she holds two US patents on the use of a marine natural product for fungal infections and cancer.Also assisting in the assessment of Western Visayas Medical Center facilities and technicians is Dr Saludes.
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