Dr. Amelia P. Guevara, Department of Science and Technology Undersecretary for Research and Development (second from right) led the inauguration of the latest Biotechnology Plant together (R-L) with BIOTECH Director Reynaldo V. Ebora, UPLB Chancellor Rex VIctor O. Cruz and BIOTECH Pioneer Dr. William Padolina at the UPLB BIOTECH Complex in Los Baños Laguna. Funded by the DOST’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), the pilot plant can produce technologies in the lab into semi-commercial scale. The BIOTECH pilot plant is the only biotechnology facility that caters not only to the researchers and the academe but to start up entrepreneurs as well.
