Xu rose through the ranks from Research Scientistto Manager Senior Manager and Associate Director

Xu rose through the ranks from Research Scientist,to Manager, Senior Manager, and Associate Director of Process Development.Through this career path, he accumulated extensive experience in developingand managing process chemistry programs.His accomplishments includedirecting process development effort of Riquent(R) at clinical phase III andpre-commercialization stage.”I am very pleased to welcome Dr. For more information, please visit http:// The MTN GroupLaunched in 1994, the MTN Group is a multinational telecommunicationsgroup, operating in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Google is headquarteredin Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia andAfrica. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businessesof all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall webexperience for users through free online services.

studentsLarry Page and Sergey Brin, Google is now a top web property in all majorglobal markets. For moreinformation, please visit GoogleGoogle’s innovative search technologies serve the company’s mission of”organising the world’s information and making it universally accessibleand useful,” and connect millions of people around the world every daywith the information they need Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. Since April 2009, he hasserved as Grameen Foundation’s first Director emeritus. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank andthe 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is a founding member of its board ofdirectors and served on the board for 12 years.

It also spearheads technologyinitiatives that create new microbusiness opportunities for the poor,provide telecommunications access for the world’s rural poor, and improvetheir access to health and agriculture information and other services.Founded in 1997, Grameen Foundation has offices in Washington, D.C andSeattle, Washington Dr. It will work on a project basis with technology partners suchas Google, mobile operators such as MTN, NGOs, foundations and governmententities to develop new applications and innovative services for the poorin Uganda and beyond — working to transform lives through innovation ininformation access.About Grameen FoundationGrameen Foundation, a global nonprofit organization, helps the world’spoorest people access financial services and technology solutions byproviding financing, technology support and management strategies to thelocal organizations that serve them. “We are hoping to reach people inrural and disadvantaged communities while we build up a new line ofbusiness for the company.”With the nationwide launch, Innovations for Poverty Action, with thesupport of Google and AppLab, will also conduct a social assessment todetermine the effectiveness of the Health Tips service in changing theknowledge, attitudes and behavior of users.Looking ahead, the Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory will continueto develop applications and related services tailored to the needs of poorcommunities. “This work is significant both forindividuals and for the broader regional economy.”"These services represent the first of what will be many initiativesreaching the segment of our market that has been underserved for a longtime,” said Noel Meier, CEO, MTN Uganda. AppLab worked with the InternationalInstitute for Tropical Agriculture, TechnoServe and SNV NetherlandsDevelopment Organisation to hone the concept with banana and pineapplefarmers in southern Uganda (Mbarara region).”These sustainable and scalable models put critical information andknowledge directly into the hands of poor people who have access to mobiledevices, in an effort to further alleviate poverty,” said Joseph Mucheru,Google’s lead for Sub-Saharan Africa. For the health application, AppLab works with Marie Stopes Uganda,the local affiliate of a leading service provider for sexual andreproductive health, and Straight Talk Foundation, a Ugandan NGO whichspecializes in health communication.Using the Google Trader application, local buyers and sellers, such assmall-holder farmers, are able to broaden their trading networks andreduce their transaction costs.