Malaysia National Commissions for UNESCO (MNCU) is pleased to invite to the inaugural public lecture the UNESCO Chair in Human Genetics on Thalassemia which was awarded to the Malaysia University of Science (USM) in November 2022. The session is organized by the Human Genome Centre of USM with the support of the MNCU will take place on 6 February 2023 at 2:45 p.m. (Malaysia) / 7:45 a.m. (Paris) via Zoom.