Faculty overview
Established in 2011, the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology (FHSB) is Cambodia's premier institution for medical laboratory education, offering Ministry of Health-recognized 3-year Associate and 2-year Bridging Bachelor degrees. FHSB equips students with workforce-ready skills, creates flexible pathways for advanced national or international study, and actively expands its offerings to meet global standards.
Educate skilled scientists: Prepare competent medical laboratory professionals dedicated to accurate disease diagnosis and high-quality patient care.
Deliver balanced training: Combine comprehensive academic coursework, intensive practical lab skills, and dynamic research experience.
Support continuous growth: Provide strong educational foundations that allow students to pursue advanced degrees in medical laboratory science pathways.
Promote social mobility: Create accessible entry points into the healthcare industry for students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Enhance community diagnostics: Partner with local hospitals and laboratories to innovate and improve diagnostic procedures.
Degrees Offered
A direct-entry associate degree and Cambodia's only bridging pathway into a full bachelor degree.
Builds foundation sciences in Year 1, core lab techniques and clinical clerkship in Year 2, and clinical practice with international electives in Year 3.
This two-year part-time bridging program enables Medical Laboratory Technology professionals to earn a bachelor’s degree while developing advanced knowledge and skills in laboratory diagnostics, research, leadership, and management.
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Hands-On Training
Modern equipment across multiple practice rooms, including a cytopathology facility unique among Cambodian universities.
Microscopy Examination Lab
Molecular Technique Lab
Tissue Embedding & Cytopathology Lab
Wet Lab Practice Rooms
Meet the Leadership
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology
BSc. Biology, MSc, Biotechnology, Ph.D. (candidate) in Biotechnology msochanwattey@puthisastra.edu.khWhere We Focus
Faculty members publish in local and international journals across eight primary research areas.
Microbiology & Infection
Infectious disease surveillance and microbiological diagnostics. members
Chemistry & Toxicology
Analytical, organic, and inorganic chemistry, plus forensic toxicology. members
Biotechnology
Cellular and molecular biology applied to healthcare challenges. members
Environmental Science
Soil, air, and wastewater analysis supporting public health. members
Faculty Highlights
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The Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology has collaborated and partnered with all the levels of hospitals and laboratories from local to international collaborations and alway looking for expanding more collaboration partners to support students to strengthen their knowledge, skills and practice while also encouraging the students in internal experience activities.
National level: faculty has assisted students to do clerkships and internships with many emerging leading laboratories in both private and public hospitals that have all service units meet the MoH requirement for the clinical clerkships and internships. Faculty has developed a well informative orientation to well prepared the students with the essential theoretical skills and technical knowledge in the first year to be ready for their clerkship year 2 and onward.
The In addition, UP has strong collaboration with international universities where students are exposed for international activities such as study exchange and visit, internship, workshops and training in many countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, America, Australia, Korea,..etc.The In addition, UP has strong collaboration with international universities where students are exposed for international activities such as study exchange and visit, internship, workshops and training in many countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, America, Australia, Korea,..etc.
Faculty has a regular schedule to send students to join these internal activities and is fully supported to coordinate a flexible schedule of study and arrangements for students to be able to participate and experience these activities that is well aligned with the UP mission and vision as a whole.
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.
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:
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.
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