The UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, usually referred to as UMBI, is a biomedicine and cancer research institute located in

Bandar Tun Razak Bandar Tun Razak is a township and parliamentary constituency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is named after the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak. There are a number of schools and institutions of learning in Bandar Tun Razak. ...

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. The institute is one of research institute in

National University of Malaysia The National University of Malaysia ( ms, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, abbreviated as UKM) is a public university located in Bandar Baru Bangi, Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia. Its teaching hospital, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ...

. UMBI was established in 2003. The institute has been recognized as a Center for Excellence in Higher Education (HICoE) in 2009 by the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

History

The UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI) was founded as one of the Centre of Excellent in UKM after the apporal from the National University of Malaysia senate meeting. UMBI was officially established in July 2003 with the operating budget allocated to this new institute of RM 25 thousand. Professor Datuk Dr.

A Rahman A Jamal A Rahman A Jamal is a Professor of Paediatric Haemato-Oncology and Molecular Biology and Senior Principal Research Fellow at UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI). He is the founding director of UMBI. He was born on 11 December 1960 i ...

has been appointed as a founding director of UMBI since 2003 until his tenure ends in 2017.

Director

* Professor Datuk Dr A Rahman A Jamal 2003 - 2017 * Professor Dr

Shamsul Azhar Shah Shamsul Azhar Shah is a Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI), and the 2nd director of UMBI. References External links Professor Shamsul Azhar Shah Living people 1967 births Academic s ...

2018 - 2019 * Dr Nor Azian Abdul Murad 2019 - current

References

External links

Official website of UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute
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