Published in NST on June 15 2010
THE Sunway Group will work with the Ministry of Health in research and development (R&D) in the area of science and medicine, said founder and chairman Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Fook Ling.
"Besides R&D, we will work on other areas with the ministry to churn out quality professionals and contribute to (the) medical (sector)," Cheah said.
The group's Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences houses the region's leading neuroscience facility, the Brain Research Institute at Monash University Sunway Campus in Bandar Sunway, Selangor.
Cheah was speaking to Business Times yesterday after the naming of the school and the beginning of a pharmacy course at Monash University.
Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai, Cheah and Monash University vice chancellor Professor Edward Byrne laid a time capsule to commemorate the event.
Cheah said the group is expanding Monash University, Sunway University College and the Jeffrey Cheah School by introducing new facilities.It plans to offer more programmes to increase student population from the current 16,000, he said.
Monash University will add new facilities such as medicine and pharmacy research laboratories, classrooms, staff offices, and seminar rooms.
The university now has 5,000 students and there is a plan to grow this by 20 per cent by end-2011.
A hostel is being constructed for RM170 million to boost student population. It will be ready by end-2010 and can accommodate 1,800 students.
The three institutions, including Sunway International School, are part of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, the charity arm of the Sunway group.
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