Iran’s Nat’l Lab Network to Expand Int’l Interactions

“In its new strategic plan, the National Laboratory Network has put on agenda the promotion of productivity, transformation in the field of agriculture and food with the help of member laboratories, industrial production, ease of access for industrialists, researchers and technologists to efficient laboratory services, and interactions on an international scale,” said Amir Younesian.

“The policies and strategies of this network continue the previous path, as well as maximum use of the capacity of laboratories related to the field of agriculture and food that have become members of the National Laboratory Network,” he added.

“Nearly 100 laboratories related to the field of agriculture and food across the country are members of this network, 50 percent of which are government laboratories and the other half are from the private sector,” Younesian said.

Another Iranian official had also earlier announced plans to establish an integrated national laboratory network in the country.

Yaqoub Fat'hollahi referred to the creation of scattered laboratory networks by the Iranian government, including the Science Ministry and the Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, and underlined the need for the establishment of an integrated national laboratory network.

“Laboratory capacity for scientific research has been created in the country and they work in the form of specialized or national laboratories, and each of these laboratories individually provides services to specialists and researchers,” he said.

Fat'hollahi said that creation of a national laboratory network was proposed to increase laboratory capacities, both in the form of individual laboratories and networks, and integrate the country's laboratories.

“Launching this national network does not mean stopping the activities of other networks, and all laboratory networks should continue to work, and the national network should also be launched with preparations and plans at the national level and with a national and transnational vision to serve all scientists in the Islamic world,” he stressed.

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