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I received some replies from few researchers from NIH past few days, after i asked for their suggestion since i am stucked in my protocol again. The reason why i stuck in my initial proposed protocol is due to lack of facilities/fundings and profesional guidance. I am not sure if there is true or just merely my own feeling, i feel those who really commit themselves to research in Malaysia will have many obstancles, from the funding and the knowledge. We seem lack of training and hard to find a person to really give us a useful advise if we have the problem.

For example, some equipments have been used widely in overseas, while Malaysia still has no market for it. The researchers there willing to take up any question, and start up a study to answer their problem. While the local researchers more towards on economical outcome (to earn money or to get publication), sometimes these people tend to forget about the quality of specimen in every project, which will eventually affect the result. Btw, it's hard to start to work on other specimen besides of cancer cells (for immunology genetic studies), since other disease isn't been paid attention yet. And, if apply for grant, the big people will be more interest if you said this study is the first one in the region, or blah blah blah.

For me, start a pilot study with no previous literature is harder than to further research on a study. This takes time for experiments and also means more money to be wasted with no results at the end. But i believe, this will help to understand alot during experimentation.

Considering my situation here stated in my email, the NIH researcher thought it's a good topic to bring up for a discussion in their coming forum meeting. They also thought that it may not be worked if i use my proposed approach, but it's good to have a try in a small pilot study. So, i am happy they give such an encouragement, much more better with a reply of "Good Luck" with no solution at all. Coz, i think all the success is happens becoz you put the effort, not becoz you're lucky.