Reaping rewards with own ventures

Thinking local: Prof Asma believes that businesses can be successful if the country depends on its own citizens to move the economy.

IT HAS been almost two decades since National Academic Award winner Prof Dr Asma Ismail successfully commercialised Typhidot, a diagnostic kit to detect the typhoid disease.

Charging into an uncharted territory from academics to business, the road to marketing her research team’s product was undoubtedly a bumpy one, but everyone involved had their eyes on the eventual goal — creating something of their own.