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The Star:

SUNGAI PETANI: US-based bio-technology company WaferGen Biosystems Inc is setting up a RM10mil research and development centre at Kulim-High Tech Park in Kedah, the company’s first venture outside Silicon Valley.

It has set up a subsidiary, WaferGen Biosystems (M) Sdn Bhd, to handle the operations.

WaferGen develops gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems for the life science and pharmaceutical industries.

WaferGen chairman and chief executive officer Alnoor Shivji said the R&D centre would be ready by April and would require some 100 researchers and scientists, mainly locals.

Sungai Petani, where my last love from. Malaysian scientists are getting more jobs, but then the wages are not as high as other countries. As my friends said, working as a scientist may got paid higher than other jobs, but the problem is you never have a chance for salary increase.

You can read the press release of WaferGen for this launching of Malaysia centre here.