UAE on track to bag a Nobel in two decades
dubai — With the UAE’s health care sector pitted as one of the main alternatives to oil for revenue, medical students here could well be celebrating a Nobel Prize in the field of medicine in as little as 20 years.
On Sunday, Dubai opened the month-long Nobel Museum Exhibition 2016.
Under the theme: ‘Exploring Life: Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine’, this marks the first time the exhibition has been dedicated to the medical field.
And according to Chairman of the Nobel Foundation’s Board of Directors, Prof Carl-Henrik Heldin, Dubai is the best place for it.
“The Islamic world acted very early when it came to the advancement and contribution of medicine.”
But give it another “10 to 20 years”, he said, and we could well be seeing a Nobel laureate in medicine here.
dubai — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday received Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, who took part in the opening ceremony of the second edition of the Nobel Museum Exhibition 2016, in Children’s City at Dubai Creek Park.
The exhibition is being organised by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF), in collaboration with the global Nobel institution.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammed, in the presence of Shaikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, welcomed the Swedish professor and exchanged talks about the Nobel prize and the role it plays in encouraging advocates of peace.
The two sides also discussed the Nobel Museum Exhibition, which will run until March 21 under the slogan, ‘Exploring Life: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.’
Shaikh Mohammed commended the humanitarian and scientific role of the Nobel Foundation and its constructive cooperation with MBRF which helps it fulfill its humanitarian, scientific and knowledge goals.
Professor Hilden praised the idea of the museum and the role that MBRF plays in consolidating and disseminating knowledge and awareness to the public in various fields and strengthening the principles of innovation, creativity and research in Arab and Islamic societies and achieving sustainable development. —