Int. Program Committee
Ruben C. Umaly is the Chair of TIEMS International Program Committee (IPC).
Dr. Ruben C. Umaly, molecular biologist and geneticist, is presently the vice-president for research, development and special projects in the University of the Cordilleras (UC). His position boosts UC’s capabilities at research and development pursuant to the university’s ideals of “giving back” through new discoveries and further learning. UC advances the principle that learning and discovery should not only exist in an institutional vacuum but should benefit a larger society. Dr. Umaly’s mandate to undertake special projects as an adjunct to research and development follows this principle.
His tertiary education in the Philippines were from the University of the Philippines in Zoology (Bachelor’s degree) and in Public Health (Masteral Degree). His other masteral and doctoral degrees were from the University of Birmingham, UK, in the field of Radiation Biology. His postdoctoral Research fellowships were at Fondacion Curie, University of Paris in Radiation Immunology as French government fellow and in Immunology of Schistosomiasis at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany as Alexander von Humboldt fellow and part of the time on the same theme at University of Leiden, Netherlands and on Medical Malacology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA as WHO fellow. He also undertook some training in Mutagenicity at the National Institute of Genetics of Mishima, Japan and in Limnology at Lake Biwa under the sponsorship of the Japanese government.
In the ASEAN, he was the Director for Research of the SEAMEO Center for Tropical Biology in Bogo, Indonesia for three years, Director of the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Secretariat (SEAMES) in Bangkok for three years and Director of the Center for International Affairs of the Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand for three years and Director of the Center for Lifelong Professional Education of AUAP (Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific) at Siam University Bangkok.
He has been Secretary General of AUAP since its founding in 1995 up to the present with Headquarters at Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
He has either collaborated or have undertaken own research on various public health issues and projects, radiation biology, karyotyping of medically diagnosed abnormal children in collaboration with the UP National Science Research Institute and the Philippine General Hospital, and comparison of ELISA and IRMA in the detection of Schistosoma antigen in sera of patients from the Philippines using monoclonal antibodies. At present, he is undertaking research on parasitology at Tublay, Benguet.
Dr. Umaly is a recipient of the prestigious Chevalier d’Academic de Palm D’Or (Knight of the Academy of the Golden Palm) from the government of France as well as the Golden Cross Award from the Vietnam Ministry of Education. He was also conferred the Friendship Award by the Government of Henan Province in China for the promotion of University International Linkages. Similarly he obtained the Outstanding Service Award for International Linkages from the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand.
He was conferred the Outstanding Alumnus award during the University of the Philippines’ silver jubilee as well as Outstanding Professor and Outstanding Faculty in Biology. Dr. Umaly is author of about 40 scientific research papers and four textbooks in Biology (Zoology, Genetics and Limnology).
He is a founding member of the Philippine Environmental Mutagens Society and the Philippine Biological Teachers Association. He belongs to the Philippines’ and The USA’s Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, as well as the Philippines’ and USA’s Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society.
