Mustafa(Pbuh) Prize wonderful experience sharing for research with colleagues and students
Canadian biologist described the Mustafa(Pbuh) Prize as "A wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with other Muslim Scientists and to discover their work and achievements."
MSTF Media reports:
Ehab Abouheif, a Canadian biologist and Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University said the 2nd round of the Mustafa Prize was wonderful experience sharing my research with my colleagues and students.
"It was also a wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with other Muslim Scientists and to discover their work and achievements," he added.
Referring to the necessity of holding the Mustafa Prize in the Islamic World, he said the Mustafa Prize is unique and one of a kind.
"Mustafa Prize symbolizes and recognizes the glorious past of scientific achievement in the Islamic world and signifies a will to build a scientific culture that encourages it citizens to ask fundamental questions about the natural world. Giving value to and celebrating basic scientific research through prestigious prizes, like the Mustafa Prize, is the foundation of any great civilization and nation," the Canadian scientist added.
Pointing to the latest achievements of Islamic world, he said:" We have made reasonably good progress in engineering and technology development, such as Nano-technologies and building construction, but we lack in scientific achievements in the basic sciences, like mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics. Researchers who are of Muslim origin performing research in the West are making great strides in these basic sciences, so clearly, the human capital is strong. We need better systems to support this human capital in the Muslim world."
"We still have a long road to travel. The measure of true scientific achievement is how much a nation or Civilization invests in basic or fundamental scientific research that does not have any practical application in mind. All technological innovations, necessary for agriculture, medicine, and industry are built on basic scientific knowledge. When basic science is strong, technological innovation is strong. While the Muslim world has made progress in technological achievements, they lag behind in basic science. And so the foundation of technological innovation is weak," he said.
The Mustafa Prize is awarded in four categories of information and communication science and technology, life and medical science and technology, nano-science and nanotechnology and all areas of science and technology.The 2019 Mustafa Prize will be granted to the laureates in November 2019.
