Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

A group of sixteen R&D institutions from various developing countries, predominantly
COMSATS' Member States, is affiliated with COMSATS as its Network of International S&T
Centres of Excellence. The Network Members serve as COMSATS’ technical resource for
South-South cooperation, while following their own agendas of scientific research and
development.
ACTIVITIES OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
2010
Annual Report
COMSATS International Centres of Excellence are vibrant R&D organizations
engaged in a wide spectrum of scientific activities according to their national priorities.
While it would be difficult to encompass all programmes of all Centres in a short
report, the following sections give glimpses of some major on-going activities. Section
‘A’ is based on the activity-reports received on request, from six Centres of
Excellence, ICCBS- Pakistan, CIIT-Pakistan, CIF Colombia, RSS-Jordan, ICENS-
Jamaica, and MRC-Turkey. Section ‘B’, on the other hand, is a compilation of newsentries
either received for COMSATS Newsletter or extracted from the respective
websites of these centres over the year 2010. These centres are Embrapa
Agrobiologia-Brazil, NRC-Egypt, IRCC-Sudan, HIAST-Syria, and NMC-Nigeria.
A. REPORTS FROM CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
International Center for Chemical and Biological
Sciences (ICCBS), Pakistan
Research Activities
The faculty of ICCBS (H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, and
Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research) has
published 214 scientific papers in leading international journals during 2010. The
cumulative Impact Factor of these publications is over 310.
Research on Production of Fuels by Co-Processing Municipal-Waste Plastics:
In this study, funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, researchers at
HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry (HEJRIC) of ICCBS investigated thermal and
catalytic co-processing of plastics, petroleum residues and coal (alone and blended
together), using six different catalysts.
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