New arrivals in Singapore ...

10 March 2003

Cedric Komar DVM (right) and Lauke Labrie DVM (left) recently took up important new positions in Intervet Norbio Singapore. Cedric, from France originally, is a new Technical Officer working with Dr. Zilong Tan, Veterinary Services Manager. 

Lauke is from The Netherlands and is a Project Leader in Bacteriology working with Dr. Luc Grisez, Research Manager. They both received a degree in veterinary medicine in Toulouse (France) and a M.Sc. in Aquatic Veterinary Studies from the University of Stirling (Scotland). They met during their first year in Toulouse and shared a mutual interest for aquatic animal health (AAH). During their vet studies, they focused on fish pathology and have always tried to combine international travelling with work. So far, they worked on fish disease-related subjects in Israel, Malta, Scotland, Mexico and, most recently, in the USA. There, they spent one year as AAH interns at the Mississippi Veterinary College in Stoneville, providing fish disease diagnostics to the farmers and doing applied fish disease research for the catfish industry. 

For them, working in Asia for Intervet is an exciting and challenging prospect, due to the tremendous variety of fish species and diseases in the region. They are both happy and proud to have become part of the “Intervet family” in Singapore and hope to get to know “family members” in other countries soon.