JCI Senate Philippines and The Insular Life Assurance Co., Ltd. recently award their winners for the 2009 Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) awards.

Given below are the names of the awardees in their respective field:

Teotimo M. Aganon, Ph.D. for Science and Technology - distinguished himself a scientist, research and development administrator, socio-civic leader, and educator. He contributed greatly to the growth of pest management technology, particularly in rodent control and locust containment in central Luzon.

The newest national artist still looks distinguished gentleman. In short, he looks not the master-artist; he dresses tastefully, why, in the grand manner of the boulevardier (a lost species).

He graduated high school from San Beda, earned a law degree from Ateneo, partly to oblige his lawyer-father, but desisted from hurdling the bar. Instead, fired-up he studied art at U.P. without earning a degree. He painted, doggedly, assiduously, turning out canvass after canvass. Unhappy with the rote of academic traditional painting, he painted his own way nevertheless. This seduced him to be bold, an unknown painter showing his wares, for the first time at San Beda College Hall. He showed his artistic prowess in portraits, a better offshoot than his early master Amorsolo. It was 1953. He was 21 years old: the debut of a future master.

According to Jairus Lachica, DOST-Aklan Provincial Science and Technology Officer, the Regional Cluster Invention Contest serves as the elimination/qualifying round for the National Invention Contest pursuant to Section 4 of the Republic Act No. 7459 also known as the Inventors and Invention Incentives Act of the Philippines. The outcome of this: no one in Aklan could represent the province, present his creation or join in the forthcoming Regional Cluster Invention Contest which will be held from August 12 to 15 this year at the Amigo Terrace Hotel in Iloilo City.

As a prelude to the 70th death anniversary of Jose Abad Santos, a small monument is placed exactly in his death site in Malabang, Lanao del Sur.

According to the new Director-General of Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines), Ricardo R. Blancaflor, the growing number of patents on Filipino inventions certifies assurance against patent infringer and removes our country from the watch list of US. This will be the mission of their agency in the next five year. The office had confiscated about P5.6 billion worth of fake goods last year, and they expect to snitch at least the same amount this year.

Domingo's recognized for his careful investigations on the basic character of schistosome granuloma and its function in hepatosplenic disease and the epidemiology and control of Hepatitis B.

He has been quoted as an example for organizing the Liver Study Group in the University of the Philippines that directed major careful examinations on liver cancer, viral hepatitis, Schistosomiasis japonica and cirrhosis.

To campaign for and acquire more knowledge about biotechnology, DOST (Department of Science and Technology) pushed young Filipino scientists to attend the Novartis Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp), which is slated on July 12 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati City.

Eric van Oppens, president and chief executive officer of Novartis Healthcare Philippines, said that their company wants to improve the quality of Philippine healthcare through Biotechnology since it can give natural solutions to many of the world's crises.