Mindanao State University- General Santos City launches the 3.7 million worth Nutraceutical Laboratory with the inauguration ceremony Thursday, March 30, at the campus ground.
The day was also the university’s 33rd Baccalaureate Services and Awards Ceremonies.
Assistant Director of the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural Resources (DA-BAR) and Guest Speaker Dr. Teodoro Solsoloy led the ribbon-cutting ceremony with Chancellor Abdurrahman Canacan and Vice- Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Mary Lynn S. Abiera.
Developing laboratories is one of the main thrust of DA-BAR. Solsoloy said there are good researchers but are nevertheless provided with insufficient laboratories.
“There are studies which are just stuck in shelves, journals or publications. It’s time to explore more and prove more,” Solsoloy said.
The Nutraceutical Laboratory, with its state-of-the-art equipment, aims to expose into a more comprehensive way various researches and studies on screen plant and animal resources for therapeutic properties.
Chancellor Canacan expressed his heartfelt gratitude to DA-BAR for its support and partnership with the university.
“This is not just a blessing but a big challenge for us,” Canacan said.
Canacan hopes for the laboratory to be properly utilized by the students, the faculty and other users.
Aside from aiding students on their studies, the laboratory was built also to benefit other researchers in the region to nurture their knowledge on environment for health and safety.
Solsoloy said MSU-GSC is the perfect location for the laboratory and the ideal place to set up the laboratory considering it as the center of all universities and scientific communities in Mindanao.
The laboratory can start its operation six months earlier than the targeted schedule speeded up by the faculty and university management joint efforts.
Alumni Regent Dr. William R. Adan expressed his admiration to the performance of the university under the present administration.
Research Director Dr. Edna Oconer said there will be no problem with the results of the tests in the laboratory as it is already complete with proper protocols.
The nutraceutical building was a location for an old classroom. It was in summer 2011 when the university proposed the project to DA-BAR.
The Nutraceutical Laboratory houses two rooms for different fields of specialization and is equipped with high-tech apparatuses.
The first room is the Phytochemistry Room. It will cater the phytochemical screening of locally-found plants and animals in the region. The room accommodates different equipment for experiments to be conducted.
The Bioassay Room will be used to check and house the specimens for the experiments and also equipped with modern apparatuses. (MSU-GSC)
