Achievements

BRONZE MEDAL - SEOUL INTERNATIONAL INVENTION FAIR (SIIF) 2021

Congratulations Associate Professor Dr Cheah Shiau Chuen and Assistant Professor Dr Tan Chung Keat for winning Bronze Medal in inventing Urinary Sodium Test Strip that was exhibited at the Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF) 2021, Seoul Korea from 1 December to 4 December 2021

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AESTHETIC CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2021

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr Farahnaz Amini & Assistant Professor Dr Edmond Ng Siah Chye for being invited as speakers at the International Medical Aesthetic Conference & Exhibition (IMACE 2021) on the 27 and 28 November 2021.

AWARDED PROFESSIONAL TECHNOLOGIST

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ts Dr Eugenie Tan Sin Sing, Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies from the School of Healthy Aging, Aesthetic and Regenerative Medicine for being awarded Professional Technologist by Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) on 24 November 2021

YOUNG SCIENTIST NETWORK – ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MALAYSIA (YSN-ASM)

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr Normina binti Ahmad Bustami, Assistant Professor Dr Tan Chung Keat and Assistant Professor Dr Eugenie Tan Sing Sing for being an affiliate member of Young Scientist Network – Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) for the year 2021-2022.

BEST VIDEO PRESENTER AWARD AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH 2021

Congratulations Assistant Professor Dr Sheiladevi Sukumaran and Sharmanee Thiagarajah from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for winning the Best Video Presenter Award at the International Conference on Education, Humanities and Technology Research from 28 to 29 August 2021 together with Dr Bavani Naido, an MSc (Healthy Aging, Aesthetics & Regenerative Medicine) alumni. They beat 48 video presentations with their presentation titled, “Knowledge Perception and Willingness to Pay for Cord Blood Banking: A Pilot Study”.

BEST PAPER AWARD AT THE INTERNATIONAL GENERAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 2021

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr Sheiladevi Sukumaran and Sharmanee Thiagarajah from Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences for winning the Best Paper Award at the International General Studies Conference 2021 (IGesCon2021) from 7 to 8 September 2021.

Together with Nadiatul Syima Mohd Shahid and Nabilah Abdullah from UiTM, they beat other 44 papers with their presentation titled, "E-Learning of STEM in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions : Status and Challenges"

BEST PAPER AWARD AT THE INTERNATIONAL GENERAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 2021

Congratulations to Sharmanee Thiagarajah and Assistant Professor Dr Sheiladevi Sukumaran from Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences for winning the Best Paper Award at the International General Studies Conference 2021 (IGesCon2021) from 7 to 8 September 2021.

Together with Nadiatul Syima Mohd Shahid and Nabilah Abdullah from UiTM, they beat other 44 papers with their presentation titled, "E-Learning of STEM in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions : Status and Challenges"

RECIPIENTS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH GRANT SCHEME (FRGS) FROM THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE)

Congratulations to Professor Dr Hoh Boon Peng and co-researchers in receiving Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) for their project entitled "Mapping Expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) of the Native Population from Peninsular Malaysia: Bridging the Genomics to Phenomics for Implication of Evolutionary and Precision Medicine"

RECIPIENTS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH GRANT SCHEME (FRGS) FROM THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE)

Congratulations to Professor Dr Shamala Devi A/P Sekaran and co-researchers in receiving Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) for their project entitled "Characterization and Evaluation of Aptameter based SPE Biosensor Derivates as Potential Detection Mechanism for Differentiating Antibodies among Flaviviruses"

SUCCESSFULLY PUBLISHED AN IMPACTFUL ARTICLE

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr Cheah Shiau Chuen and Dr Siak Pui Yan from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for successfully publishing an impactful article titled “Current Status and Future Perspectives about Molecular Biomarkers of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma” in the Cancers (Q1, IF 6.639).

The article gives an insight to readers on the progress of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma biomarker discovery to date, as well as future prospective biomarker development and their translation to clinical use.

This research was supported by Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2020/SKK0/UCSI/02/2) and UCSI University Research Excellence and Innovation (REIG-FMS-2020/009).