The Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology is aiming to provide the best human capital with the best skills, performance and knowledge to the society.

Faculty have members with high qualification who have graduated from well-known universities in Cambodia and form international universities with related disciplines and have expertise in their areas and have long years of experiences in their professionalism. All the members are very energetic and have very high commitment to provide the best quality delivery to their students. While dedicating the best quality to students, faculty members also actively focus on upgrading and advancing their professional skills and knowledge by participating in many national and international trainings, workshops, seminars, or congresses offline and online in local and abroad.

Faculty also hire part-time lecturers who have high qualification and long years’ experience in teaching and lab technical instruction in a high quality laboratories and hospital so to bring the real critical case scenarios to students to develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Last but not least, all faculty members have been actively involved in many researches, surveys and surveillance and have published numbers of researches and publications in many local and international journals.

Meas Sochanwattey

SAY Sinith

Yem Vuthy

Hem Channvatanak

Heng Sreyly

Toem Lanyra

The Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology is an active academic division committed to educate qualified health professionals who play a part in improving Cambodia's healthcare system. It is dedicated to matching its educational methods with national guidelines and international best practices to address the changing needs of the medical laboratory field and foster improved health outcomes for communities in Cambodia and beyond.

The faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology of University of Puthisastra has a wide range of research interests, focusing primarily on the following areas:

• Medical Laboratory research
• Chemistry (Analytical, organic and inorganic chemistry)
• Environmental (Soil, air and wastewater)
• Microbiology
• Biotechnology
• Cellular and Molecular biology
• Infection diseases
• Tissue culture (Plant and animal)
• Cytopathology
• Toxicology and Forensic Sciences
• Quality of Healthcare, etc,

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The Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology is equipped with high quality machines and equipment with modern technology helping in practical instruction in the laboratory and diagnostic testing. Faculty have enough equipment, supplies and materials to support all the practical instruction classes with enough rooms for practice from basic fundamental practice courses such as microscopy examination to the advanced research course such as molecular technic and for the tissue embedding and processing in cytopathology course that is only in University of Puthisastra. Moreover, faculty continually invests in upgrading its infrastructure to ensure that students have access to diagnostic tools and resources preparing them to meet the high demand of professions.

The Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology has achieved notable success in career pathways after the students graduate and research. After graduation, most students get a high paid job with their knowledge and high position. In addition, the number of research publications in the faculty is increasing year by year. Furthermore, the faculty has successfully fostered an environment that encourages students to study, to do clerkships and internships, and joining the community project. The faculty also provides students opportunities to join conferences and any competitions and innovation challenges on both national and international stages. The strong collaboration between the faculty, oversea partner-universities and industry partners has resulted in practical applications of excellence academic, research innovation and future career.

Medical Laboratory Technology programs in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology follow the semester system which consists of 2 semesters per academic year.
Both programs are tentative to start regularly annually from April to March after the National Entrance Exam (NEE) that is organized by MoH only if notification of change.

• Year 1,2 and 3: Monday to Saturday (7:00-5:30)
• The students will have one clerkship per semester in hospital laboratories from starting in year 2 semester till year 3 semester 2
• Students will have to complete a 3-month internship after completing all course works in their final year.

• Year 1 and 2: Friday to Sunday (7:00-5:30), either on campus or online
• The students will have one Clerkship/internship from year 1 to year 2 and it will be held from Monday to Friday.
• Students will have a one year time frame to start and complete their memoir/dissertation research writing

• Any student who has successfully passed high school from any year graduation
• Successfully passed the National Entrance Exam (NEE) designate for Associate degree organized by MoH
• Apply to University of Puthisastra as the first option for “Associate Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology
• Complete in online Admission Application Form Click here

• Holders of a associate's degree in Medical Laboratory Technology or equivalent from any an accredited universities recognized by MoH and MoEYS
• Have recorded of a successfully passed the National Exit Exam (NEE) organized by MoH
• Complete in online Admission Application Form Click here
• Mandatory attached and verified all required document to admission office by the dateline (Attachment)
• Selection is through a panel meeting with the MoH and UP from the list of registration candidates.

To successfully graduated the degree they are studying students need to fulfill completion requirement for the the program as stated below:

• Complete all courseworks, Clerkships and Internship required by the national curriculum
• Successfully passed the Internal Exit Exam (IEE) prepared by UP to be eligible to sit in the National Exit Exam (NEE prepared by MoH
• Successfully passed the National Exit Exam (NEE) prepared by MoH

• Complete all courseworks, fieldworks, Clerkships and Internship required by the national curriculum
• Successfully passed the Internal Exit Exam (IEE) prepared by UP to be eligible to sit in the National Exit Exam (NEE prepared by MoH)
• Successfully passed the National Exit Exam (NEE) prepared by MoH
• Additionally requirement for BBL, students are required to write a memoir/dissertation research and publish a research writing as a book and store in the UP Library for their achievement as the partial fulfillment of the requirements to complete this bachelor degree program.

The graduate student from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology either from the Associate and Bridging Bachelor Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology programs will have the technical and professional expertise to work as a senior laboratory technician in the areas of health and health diagnosis such as hematology, sero-immunology, parasitology, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, toxicology and forensic, cytopathology, blood bank and transfusion and students can work and advance their career in many fields such as:

• Clinical testing laboratories
• Community diagnostic medical laboratories
• Public health laboratories
• Medical research center or Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)
• Universities and Higher Education Institutions
• Biotechnology, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries
• Educational, scientific research and technological development institutions.
• Researcher in the medical laboratory-related sciences.
• Other career opportunities include forensic science, medical laboratory supply business, private practice, and teaching.