Dr Cardosa sharing her experience in virology with the audience during a lecture on ‘Virology in the jungle: Pay Attention to What Matters to Local Communities’ at the Penang Institute.
WHEN Dr Mary Jane Cardosa was offered the position of a researcher in the Sarawak forest, she jumped at the chance even when her boss told her she was out of her mind.
The Penang-born doctor, who was then in her 40s and a lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), received the offer from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak to set up the first virology unit in Borneo.
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