Launching of HICoEs

The launching of six Higher Institutions' Centres of Excellence (HICoE) was formalised today and graced by the Prime Minister Dato' Seri Mohd Najib Razak at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC).
The six HICOEs are namely (1) UM Centre of Research Power Electronics, Drives, Automation & Control (UMPEDAC)Universiti Malaysa; (2) UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI) of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; (3) Institute of Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Mlaysia; (4) Institute of Bioscience (IBS), Universiti Putra Malaysia; (5) Centre for Drug Research (CDR), Universiti Sains Malaysia and
(6) Accounting Research Institute (ARI) Universiti Teknologi MARA. The Ministry of Higher Education hopes to recognise twenty HICoEs by the year 2020. Currently there are 166 registered CoEs in the country.