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To help the handicraft industry reduces contamination of water, Filipino scientists with the Department of Science and Technology's Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) is now embarking on a project to develop a technique dubbed as wastewater detoxification. Chief for Environmental Division Dr. Christopher Silverio of ITDI is now leading a team to develop this technique called solar photocatalysis, which uses solar energy as primary catalyst in removing toxic dyes in water. Silverio's team is using a non-toxic chemical called titanium oxide to help break down pollutants in the water. |
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In pursuant of the Proclamation No. 1762 signed in April 30 this year, the National Scientist Award was given to 84-year-old, Dr. Teodulo M. Topacio Jr. for his outstanding achievement in veterinary medicine and agriculture. Topacio's studies on leptospirosis, particularly the transmission of the disease from pigs to humans and his research on other animal diseases like bacterial abortion in cattle, parasitic liver disease and virus disease of dogs and tumors in cats are among Topacio's achievements He also led the drafting and lobbying of the proposed Anti-Rabies Bill which was signed by President Arroyo as Anti-Rabies Act 2007. |
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Four young Filipino students bag awards at 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Among these students are: Angeli Joyce Yap-Dy, 14, of Capiz National High School; Jovani Tomale, 16, of Davao City National High School; and the team of Kevin Jer David, 16, and Orven Jules Dumaoang, 16, of the Philippine Science High School Diliman Campus. The said students were selected from a field of 1,563 young scientists from 56 countries for exhibiting a true commitment to science and technology innovation. |
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According to a British-Filipino scientific expedition, one of the rarest deer has been found in a territory of the Philippine forest. The statement was given as a result of the group's three week sortie into Mount Mandalagan in the north of Negros Island last month. Cervus alfredi are found only in the central Philippines and before the herds dwindled through heavy hunting and rapid habitat loss, they were represent on the islands of Cebu, Guimaras, Leyte, Masbate, Negros, Panay and Samar. |
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To have a genetically modified (GM) kamote (sweet potato) in the next five years, Filipino scientists from Visayas State University (VSU) and the University of the Philippines Los Banos , Institute of plant Breeding (UPLB-IPB) are now working on the development virus resistant sweet potato (VRSP) through agro bacterium-mediated transformation. Sweet potato is popular cash crop abundantly in more than 12, 500 hectares in the Philippines. Of 15 known sweet-potato viruses worldwide, eight of these can be found in the country. |
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This web site features Filipino people who are putting Philippines on the map. A list of Filipino scientist and inventors, biologist, chemist, physicist, mathematicians, painters, psychologist, entrepreneurs, economist, composers, writers, heroes, presidents, national artist and other who also been known because of the deeds and knowledge that they done for their fellow Filipino's and to their chosen field. 
