UM ICMS students get full funding to attend DIA annual meeting 8th year in a row

Yang Xueyan, a postgraduate student of medicinal administration from the University of Macau (UM) Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS), recently received full funding to attend the 50th Annual Meeting of Drug Information Association (DIA) as a student poster presenter. Her paper entitled “Financial Crisis of Pharmaceutical Firms in China by Using Z-Score Model” stood out from more than 2,000 submissions to the DIA annual meeting. This is the 8th consecutive year since 2007 that ICMS students of medicinal administration have attended DIA’s annual meetings with full funding. The theme of this year’s DIA annual meeting, which was held in in San Diego, California, United States, from 15 June to 19 June, is “Celebrate the Past – Invent the Future”. The meeting was attended by more than 7,000 people from all over the world, including officials of health regulatory bodies, members of the academic elite, representatives from medical and patient groups, as well as professionals from the pharmaceutical industry. Yang’s paper was supervised by ICMS associate professor Bian Ying.