The 7th Step Virtual Meeting is being held under the title of Scientific and Technological Cooperation in Resolving the Corona Challenge to assess the issue through holding specialized panels and roundtables.

The meeting will be held by the Mustafa foundation and with the cooperation of the Singapore Center for Research, Science and Technology Agency, Nyubayo Center.

The event is an opportunity to expand scientific collaboration to overcome the Corona challenge.

The seventh conference includes lectures on new methods of diagnosis for COVID-19, prevention and treatment strategies. In addition, holding specialized panels is another part of this program, in which the issue of the scientific and technological network in the face of the challenges of the coronavirus in the Islamic world is examined.

Of course, post-Corona world is another issue that will be addressed in the specialized roundtables of this event, so that the policies and strategies for dealing with the second wave of Corona will be considered.

The virtual meeting of the seventh STEP was held on May 28^th, 2020.

This STEP meeting will be held with regard to the outbreak of corona in China from December 2019 with the aim of emphasizing the importance of exchanging valuable experiences and knowledge and achievements. Another goal of the meeting is to provide the best context through a virtual meeting on the topic of Corona, increasing the capabilities and capacities of scientists and experts in Islamic countries to solve the current global crisis.

The key lecturers of the event are previous winners of the Mustafa Prize, including professor Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, professor Ugur Sahin, an immunologist in University of Mainz in Germany, Hossein Baharvand, Professor of Biology and Stem Cell Technology at Royan Research Institute, and Mohammad Abdul Ahad, Faculty Member of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran. In addition, the specialized panels will be held with the cooperation of experts from different countries and by presenting articles in various areas.

During this step-by-step meeting, infectious disease experts and university professors and experts, along with professors from India, Turkey, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and Azerbaijan, share their experiences in treating this disease.

A report by the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs