Awards & Recognitions

24 June 2020 (Wednesday) – Malaysia Book of Records (MBR) has presented two new MBR certificates for Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) to Director General Datuk Dr Abd Latif Mohmod yesterday. The certificates for the new records, namely the ‘First to Establish Tongkat Ali Hairy Root Culture in the Bioreactor’ and ‘Most Number of Sub-Ethnic Orang Asli Traditional Knowledge (TK) Documented on Medicinal & Aromatic Plants’ were presented by MBR Director of Business, Jwan Heah Yeow Hooi. From left: Norwati, Jwan Heah, Abd Latif and Nor Hasnida during the ‘First to Establish Tongkat Ali Hairy Root Culture in [...]

2 March 2020 (Monday) – Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) won five silver medals at the 19th Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE), and also in conjunction with 'The Malaysia-Croatia Technology Exchange 2020', four of the FRIM innovations contested in the 'Invention & Innovation Awards' category received 'International Award of Merit'. FRIM awards recipients showing their certificates and medals. FRIM staff at the FRIM exhibition booth. FRIM's innovation entries in  the 'Invention & Innovation Awards' category comprised: Active Ingredient SEEL30 with Anti-Ovarian Cancer and Energy Booster Potential led by Dr Nurhanan Murni Yunos; KLL092 Standardised Extract: Development of Antidiabetic [...]

14 October 2019 (Monday) – Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) bagged two major prizes at the Selangor Research, Development and Innovation (R,D&I) Expo on 10–13 October. FRIM’s innovation projects took top prizes of the R&D Competition and Pitching Competition at the expo held in Kuala Lumpur. Farah Fazwa (fifth from right) and her research team with the awards and trophies won. Khairul explaining about the ‘In-situ tester for furniture’ innovation project at the pitching session. The aim of the expo was to promote research among universities and research institutes as well as providing a platform for forming [...]

15 May 2019 (Wednesday) – Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) won four gold and one bronze medals at the SIRIM Invention, Innovation and Technology Expo (Si2TE) 2019 held on 18 April in Kulim, Kedah. Mastura (far left) receiving the Green Invention Award from Ooi while Mohamad Jamil looks on. Representatives of FRIM winning projects posing with their award certificates and medals. Si2TE, organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and SIRIM in collaboration with the National STEM Centre, was officiated by the Kedah Chinese and Siamese Community Affairs, Science and Technology, Climatic Change and [...]

6 May 2019 (Monday) – Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has won the ‘Best Invention in Biotechnology Award’ Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), a gold and a silver medal at the International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition 2019 (ITEX’19) on 5 May in Kuala Lumpur. The JIPA award certificate and medal received. Tnah explaining her innovation project to a jury. ITEX'19, organised by the Malaysian Invention and Design Society (MINDS), was participated by universities, corporate bodies as well as individuals from ASEAN and Asian countries. FRIM innovation project, ‘DNA Barcording System for Malaysian Plant Species Identification and [...]