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The latest biotechnology applications in the fields of health and medicine, food security and agriculture, and environment will be featured in the 10th Biotechnology Week which will run from November 24-28, 2014.

With the theme, “Edukasyon sa Bioteknolohiya: Pagyamanin para sa kinabukasan natin”, the National Biotechnology Week is an annual event organized by Departments of Science and Technology, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources, Education, Health, Interior and Local Government, and Trade and Industry and Commission on Higher Education as this year’s lead agency.

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Believing in the potential of local inventors to contribute to the country’s intellectual and economic wealth, the Department of Science and Technology commits to enhance its services that support inventors.

“We are continuously looking for better ways to serve our clientele, including inventors,” DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo said.

As such, Sec. Montejo instructed Dir. Edgar Garcia, head of DOST’s Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI), to facilitate 100 patent applications for the year. Patent is an intellectual property right granted exclusively to inventors “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention” throughout the country. TAPI is DOST’s lead agency in supporting local inventions and DOST’s arm for technology transfer and commercialization per Executive Order No. 128, which is also formerly known as Philippine Invention Development Institute prior to post-EDSA reorganization.

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Academician Carmencita D. Padilla said there should be an item for a genetics counsellor in the plantilla of secondary and tertiary hospitals in the country to help address the gaps in the treatment and services for rare disease patients in the Philippines.

The UP Manila College of Medicine professor made this statement during a Roundtable Discussion on Rare Diseases organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s National Academy of Science and Technology (DOST-NAST) held at Traders Hotel recently. Padilla is a DOST-NAST Academician.

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You may have seen storm chasers only in the movies, but now it is for real. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Chief himself revealed his plans to form a “storm chaser” team to complement DOST’s existing weather monitoring systems.

DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo disclosed this during the Mindanao Cluster Science and Technology Fair at the SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City.

“Last year, we started the storm chaser technologies or the mobile radar to be deployed near the areas where the typhoon will hit… for additional weather monitoring for incoming weather disturbances,” explained Sec. Montejo.