IN A move to groom entrepreneurially minded pharmacy students in Malaysia, Chemical Company of Malaysia Bhd (CCM) expanded its CCM Jati (Jalinan Universiti dan Industri) initiative to enrol 50 pharmacy undergraduates of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) into the programme annually.
The initiative, led by CCM’s pharmaceutical arm CCM Duopharma Biotech Bhd, is working to develop 500 successful and competitive entrepreneurs in community pharmaceutical retail by 2020 and has been working with three other local universities – Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara and Universiti Malaysia Sabah – since it began in 2011. Today, the initiative has successfully enrolled more than 200 undergraduates.