Welcome to our website. We are the International Institute of Biochemical and Biomedical Technology or IIBBT for short.

Don’t let our long, technical sounding name scare you. It is not meant to do that especially when our aim is to make science simple, sensible and accessible. We have to use this long name to reflect the technical world we live in so we can explain it to you and prepare you to live in it with “knowingness” instead of fearing and hiding from it. 

Our overall aims are:

1. to popularize science;
2. bring more people into science;
3. open doors to science and technology based careers;
4. take the sting out of science so more people could be “science literate” thereby becoming capable of making their day to day life decisions based on knowledge, not fear and hearsay.

We fulfill these aims by four means:

1. By offering basic and applied courses in science and in biochemical and biomedical technology (see educational programs). This is where we differ from conventional schools, colleges and universities. Our curriculum is not based on subjects such as chemistry, physics and biology but on 150 concepts and skills that SCIENTISTS USE TO DO SCIENCE. Science thus becomes a logical progression of applying concepts, skills and tools to know the known and to uncover the unknown. After learning and mastering the 150 concepts and skills, students find subjects such as chemistry, physics and biology not only logical and comprehensible but downright enjoyable. Our curriculum thus brings them into the main stream of science enabling them to function better in schools and colleges.

2. By aiding universities and colleges to revive hands on lab courses by making available, through our MINI CATALOGUES, just the essential supplies needed to teach a comprehensive lab course. This way a much larger percentage of students get exposed to science than we would be able to do on our own. Currently, we have a MINI CATALOGUE OF MICROBIOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL SUPPLIES. Other catalogues covering other subjects or disciplines will be forthcoming. To get your copy of the mini-catalogue of microbiology and immunology supplies and to see a summary of its contents click here.

3. By offering workshops to teachers and administrators explaining our concepts and skills’ based format of teaching science. This is one other way how we feel science can be popularized so more students can be brought and retained into science.

4. by community outreach to parents, students, social workers and concerned citizens. This we do: 

By public lectures; 
by establishing neighborhood discussion groups; 
by offering hands on workshops; 
by going to schools to explain our format of teaching science to students and teachers; 
by helping students with their science projects; 
by inviting students, parents and the general public to tour the Center and get to know science from our display labs and our tour guides.

The main advantage of our format of teaching is that it takes that feeling of “awe” out of science. Consequently, you no longer feel afraid of science. That anxious feeling of fear and panic which generally translates into “I am not good enough for science” gets replaced with a sense of assuredness and confidence. 

Simultaneously, those dreaded subjects of chemistry, physics and biology loose their “bite.” You not only feel confident of handling science in school and college but also in your day to day life. The euphoric feeling that you are not an outsider but an integral part of life that surrounds you is awesome and therapeutic so much so that we have dubbed it Technotherapy™ 

We believe that our consolidated curriculum for science consisting of 150 concepts and skills can make good things happen to most every one. The system is capable of awakening your true learning potential. 

Age seems to be no barrier. We have worked with students as young as 12 year old and as old as 75 and they have all learned remarkably well... 

Since we don’t divide science in subjects but tell the whole story coherently, our body, mind and soul get involved in the learning process. It is an exciting experience. There seem to be no barriers. High school or college drop outs seem to do just as well as those label “motivated”. 

Let me, therefore, invite you to browse through our website and then contact us. There are so many ways we can work together to guide and help you.

Riaz-ul Haque, PhD (Emeritus)
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois USA


SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Knowledge is your most important possession. Don’t loose it, build on it. 

Beware of information explosion. It is robbing us of our sense of discernment making you vulnerable. You can loose yourself faster in it than in the maze of mirrors in an amusement park.

Confusion, like knowledge is also contagious. The only difference is that it spreads faster and is harder to uproot.