TESMATESMA

TISSUE ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA (TESMA)

7TH

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

DATE: 7TH JUNE 2011 TIME: 11.30 AM VENUE: Great Hall (Block A, Clock Tower White Building), University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor

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AGENDA OF TESMA 7TH AGM

7th June 2011

Great Hall, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

11.30-11.45am Welcoming remarks by the President (session 2010-11)

11.45am-12.00pm Presentation & approval of the 6th AGM minutes

12.00-12.10pm

Updates, achievement report and review of past activities (Jan 2010-May 2011) by the Honorary Secretary

12.10-12.20pm

Financial report (Jan 2010-May 2011) by the Honorary Treasurer

12.20-12.25pm Speech by President

12.25-12.30pm Dissolution of the Board of Committee

12.30pm

Speech by the newly elected President and souvenir presentation to ex-committee members

12.45-1.00pm Arising matters and closing

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6TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MINUTES

TISSUE ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA (TESMA)

Date : 1st June 2010 Venue : Main Meeting Room, Level 4, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM Time : 11.30am

Attendees Please refer to Appendix I 1.0 INTRODUCTION

The meeting commenced at 11.30am and was chaired by the President of TESMA Prof. Fauziah Othman. Meeting minutes of the 5th AGM and notification of the 6th AGM had been sent to members two weeks earlier via email. Additional copies of the meeting agenda, previous AGM minutes, year 2008 activities and financial reports were provided during the meeting. The chairperson congratulated the organizing committee for TESMA Seminar Series June 2010 in conjunction with TESMA 6th AGM for high number of turn-ups. 50 people from various organizations have participated in the seminar, which ended just before the 6th AGM started. The agenda of this meeting is as shown below:

1st June 2010 Venue: FMHS, UPM

11.30-11.45am Welcoming remarks by the President (session 2009-10)

11.45am-12.00pm Presentation & approval of the 5th AGM minutes

12.00-12.15pm

Updates, achievement report and review of past activities (June 2009-May 2010) by the Honorary Secretary

12.10-12.30pm Financial report (Jan 2009-May 2010) by the Honorary Treasurer

12.30-12.45pm Resolutions/Motions –a) change of society name b) Journal of TESMA c) Membership Drive

12.45-1.00pm Arising matters and closing

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2.0 CONFIRMATION OF THE 5TH AGM MINUTES

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 17th June 2009 was passed by Dr. Rajesh Ramasamy and seconded by Dr. Sharmili Vidyadaran

3.0 UPDATES, ACHIEVEMENT REPORT AND REVIEW OF PAST ACTIVITIES

Dr Angela Ng Min Hwei, the Honorary Deputy Secretary elaborated in length the activities of TESMA held in 2009. The Honorary Secretary, Dr. Norshariza Nordin, was on medical leave and therefore the report was presented by the Honorary Deputy Secretary. Refer to 2009-10 activity report. (Appendix II)

4.0 FINANCIAL REPORT 4.1 Dr Syahrilnizam Abdullah, the Honorary Treasurer, presented the

financial report for the period of accounts from 1 January 2009 – 31 December 2009 and 1 January 2010 – 31 May 2010. Refer to TESMA Financial Report. (Appendix III)

4.2 Prof. Fauziah congratulated Dr. Syahril for a wonderful job in managing

the account, and also to TESMA for its financial stability even though the society is still at its infancy stage.

4.3 The committee decided to promote membership drive as to get members

to pay their fees as well as more life membership, and also to attract more people to join the society.

5.0 RESOLUTIONS/MOTIONS

5.1 Change of the name of society Members have agreed to change the society‟s name to “Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine Society of Malaysia” with acronym TESMA to be maintained

The meeting adjourned at 1.00 pm and the attendees were invited for lunch at the foyer of FMHS, UPM The minutes is confirmed by ___________________________ __________________________ Profesor Dr Fauziah Othman Dr. Norshariza Nordin President Honorary Secretary

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Appendix I Attendance for 6th TESMA AGM 1st June 2010 Main Meeting Room, Level 4, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM Professional Members

1. Nurina Anuar TESMA/P/2005/0036

2. Tan Geok Chin TESMA/P/2006/0037

3. Sandra Lau TESMA/P/2005/0046

4. S. Joganathan TESMA/P/2005/0042

5. Ruszymah Haji Idrus TESMA/P/2005/0041

6. Rajesh Ramasamy TESMA/P/2006/0031

7. Jeevanan Jahendran TESMA/P/2005/0021

8. Goh Bee See TESMA/P/2005/0020

9. Chua Kien Hui TESMA/P/2005/0014

10. Aminuddin Saim TESMA/P/2008/0003

11. Amara Naicker TESMA/P/2006/0004

12. Abdul Halim Abdul Rashid TESMA/P/2005/0001

13. Lokman Saim TESMA/P/2005/0027

14. Ruszymah Haji Idrus TESMA/P/2005/0041

15. Roszalina Ramli TESMA/P/2005/0040

16. Roslan Abdul Rahman TESMA/P/2005/0039

17. Stanley Phang TESMA/P/2006/0036

18. Angela Ng Min Hwei TESMA/P/2009/001

19. Mazita Bt. Ami TESMA/P/2005/0029

20. Kuan Chau Siong TESMA/P/2005/0026

21. Joseph Chan Chee Weng TESMA/P/2005/0023

22. Chandra d/o Sundaralingam TESMA/P/2005/0011

23. Rusnah Mustaffa TESMA/P/2006/0045

24. Fauziah Othman TESMA/P/2005/0018

25.

Student Members

1. Mohd Adha P Rameli TESMA/S/2005/0007

2. Mohd Heikal Mohd Yunus TESMA/S/2006/0026

3. Phang Mun Yee TESMA/S/2005/0014

4. Shamsul Sulaiman TESMA/S/2005/0017

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5. Siti Fatimah Simat TESMA/S/2006/0039

6. Hamoud Hussain Alfaqeh TESMA/S/2006/0015

7. Thaiya Nachiar a/p K. Lenin TESMA/S/2010/0004

8. Lee Han Chung TESMA/S/2010/0005

9. Low Poh Tee TESMA/S/2010/0006

10. Wendy Yeo Wai Yeng TESMA/S/2010/0007

11. Tan Keai Sinn TESMA/S/2010/0008

12. Ngai Siew Ching TESMA/S/2010/0009

13. Mohamad Lizan bin Mohd Buang TESMA/S/2010/0010

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Appendix II

TESMA activities from June 2009 – May 2010

1. TESMA short seminar series June 2009

Date: 17TH June 2009, TIME: 9.00-12.30 pm Theme: From Fundamentals to Clinical Venue: Main Meeting Room, Level 4, Faculty of Medicine & Health

Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) The seminar, which was co-organized by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, was opened to members, non-members as well as private companies. 54 people from various organizations, including UPM, UKM, IMU, PPUKM, Malaysia Nuclear Agency, CryoCord Sdn. Bhd., and Intran Technologies, have participated in the seminar, which ended just before the 5th AGM started. The seminar commenced with the registration of participants at around 8.15 am while breakfast was served. The session started with greetings from the chairperson, Dr. Sharmili Vidyadaran, followed by introduction of the first speaker, Pn. Rusnah Mustaffa, a scientist from Division of Industrial Technology, Malaysia Nuclear Agency. Her topic was on the Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Applications. The second speaker was Prof. Dr. Hesham A. El Enshasy, a lecturer in the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). His topic was on the cGMP for Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering Facility. The last speaker was MR. Toshiyuki Akamine, a scientist from Autostrade Co. Ltd. Japan. His talk was on the Generation of Biochip via Tissue Engineering Technology. All speakers were given a token of appreciation for their well-done job. The seminar ended around 12.30 pm where everybody was then invited for lunch. Participants enjoyed the seminar, and took the gathering as the opportunity for networking. Recruitment of new TESMA members as well as membership renewals were also took place.

2. Tesma short seminar series November 2009

Date: 23rd November 2009, Time: 8.30 – 12.00 pm Theme: Stem Cell Research: Covering the Basics Venue: Main Meeting Room, Level 4, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences,

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) The seminar was co-organized by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, and was opened to members, non-members as well as private companies. 81 people from various organizations, including UPM, UKM, IMU, PPUKM,

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Monash University, Malaysia Nuclear Agency, CryoCord Sdn. Bhd., Frost & Sullivan, Stem Life, and Intran Technologies, have participated in the seminar. Breakfast and lunch were kindly sponsored by Stem Medics Sdn. Bhd. The seminar started with the welcoming address by the President of TESMA, Prof. Fauziah Othman, followed by the organizing chairperson, Dr. Sharmili Vidyadaran. The first speaker, Prof. Eric Stanbridge (University of California University of Medicine), was introduced by the session chairman, Dr Abhimanyu Veerakumarasivam (UPM). Prof. Stanbrige talk was on “Breast Cancer Stem Cells”. The second speaker, Dr Norshariza Nordin (UPM), was introduced by Dr. Syahrilnizam Abdullah (UPM) who talked on “Wnt Signalling during Neural Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells: Generation of more Neurons in vitro”. Dr. Maha Abdullah (UPM) introduced the last speaker, Dr Rajesh Ramasamy (UPM), who talked on “Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Transplantation Setting”. All speakers were given a token of appreciation for their well-done job. The seminar ended around 12.45 pm where everybody was then invited for lunch.

3. Tesma short seminar series March 2010 Date: 24 Mar 2010 Time: 9.00am-1.00pm Venue: Dewan Kuliah 1, Ground Floor, Academic Block, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre The seminar was co-organized by the UKM Medical Centre and was opened to members and non-members without any charges. Dr Belinda Murphy, a TESMA committee member brought in 60 undergraduates from UM which made up more than 60% of the attendees. Dr Belinda was generous enough to subsidize refreshments (RM2.50 each) for all her students. The attendance breakdown was as follows:

There were four speakers, namely,

1) Dr Ying Yang from Keele University,UK - „Monitoring cellular activity of

tissue engineering constructs via nondestructive modalities‟.

2) Dr Shiplu Roy Chowdhury from UKM Tissue Engineering Centre –

„Culture process design to expand human skeletal myoblasts for clinical

applications‟

Pre-registered Participated

UKM 49 44

UM 70 62

UPM 7 3

Others 10 6

Speakers 4 4

TOTAL 140 119

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3) Dr Then Kong Yong from UKM Medical Centre – „Corneal tissue

engineering‟

4) Dr Bakiah Shaharuddin from USM – „Corneal tissue engineering and

transplantation - a multicentre research experience‟

The speakers‟ travelling and expenses was self-funded. A token of appreciation

(4G pendrive) and a certificate was given to each speaker and the organizing

committee members.

The breakdown of the expenses:

Item Quantity

Unit price (RM)

Total (RM)

Total (RM)

Breakfast 140 2.5 350

Lunch 70 9 630

Mineral water 8 0.8 6.4

Souvenir/ token (Speaker) 4 75 300

Souvenir/ token (organizing comittee) 7 45 315

Certificates: Committee members & speakers 12 0.7 8.4

Badges 3 1.2 3.6

Badges 1 1.8 1.8

Afternoon tea 15 1.5 22.5

Reimbursement from UM 70 2.5 175

TOTAL (RM) 1462.7

Feedback from the attendees were encouraging. Many find the meeting useful and up to their expectation.

4. Berita TESMA/Newsletter

No new issues had been produced since 2009. There is a reactivation to the editorial board.

5. Website

We have engaged Bethzoe Consultancy to revamp the TESMA website in beginning of 2010. The service package was as follow:

Option A: The basic website (inclusive of conference page) with a members'

section which allows for members to update their information and change password and username. There will also be a specialist information search engine (for members only). Meaning we can search among our members by specialization, name, location etc. Cost: RM 3000.

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Below are the new categories for the TESMA website:

1. Home, 2. Committee Members, 3. Membership, 4. Activities, 5. News / articles / recent developments, 6. Affliate research labs, 7. Forum, 8. Downloads 9. Journal links A new feature will be created for the benefit of TESMA members only ; a searchable members‟ database including: 1. Name, 2. Employer, 3. Department, 4. Research interest, 5. Keywords, 6. Published articles Designing works are in progress meanwhile updated news on TESMA activities have been uploaded and the MTERMS 2010 website was created where registration and submission of abstract can be done online.

6. Membership update

New members were recruited during the 5th AGM; 2 life members, 5 professional members, 6 student members and 2 student member renewals.

7. Financial update

TESMA since 2009 has not been engaged in any income-generating activities. Outreach activities for the members & public were generally free-of charge. No new members nor subscription renewal was received since June 2009.

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Date Income Ref. No RM (Dt) Date Expenditure Ref. No RM (Ct)

1/1/2010 Balance from 31/12/2009 RM26,978.95

7/1/10

Seminar Series Nov 09 773521 200.00

7/1/10 Refreshment Exco Meeting 2 773522

75.00

2/2/10 1st Exco Meet refreshment 773524

120.00

2/2/10 TESMA & MTERMS Website Maintenance 773528

4,200.00

12/02/10 2nd & 3rd MTERM '10 meeting 773527

180.00

02/04/10 Seminar at UKM 773529

1,392.70

28/04/10 MTERMS '10 meet 19/04 refreshments 773530

120.00

28/04/10 MTERMS meet 26/04 refreshments 773531

29.00

30/5/10 Total 26,978.95 Total

Appendix III

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6,316.70

Accumulative Income RM26,978.95

Total Expenditure RM6,316.70

Balance Until 30/05/2010 RM20,662.25