This page introduces you to the major areas in which the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is conducting active research and to give you insight into our research specialization. The School welcomes enquiries from organisations wishing to sponsor or initiate collaborative research programmes.
Details of specific research areas for individual staff are shown in the Table below. The staff’s name is directly linked to their respective webpage.
Pharmacology
| Name | Research Area |
| Abas Hj Hussin | Herbs-drug interactions; food-drug interactions; drug metabolism and factors modifying it; traditional medicine; signal transduction and cytotoxicity study. |
| Mohd. Zaini Asmawi | Antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic activity of traditional medicines; effect of anti-inflammatory drugs on inflammatory mediators. |
Physiology
| Name | Research Area |
| Aidiahmad Dewa | Roles Of The Sympathetic Nervous System And Renin Angiotensin System In The Regulation Of Kidney Function In Cardiovascular Disorders. |
| Khairul Niza Abd. Razak | Studies on the effects of enkephalins on testicular functions. |
| Mariam Ahmad | Studies of local medicinal plants as potentially active oral hypoglycemic agents; cytotoxic study of various plant extracts. |
| Munavvar Zubaid Abdul Sattar | Neural control of kidney function; renal and cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. |
Pharmaceutical Technology
| Name | Research Area |
| Habibah A. Wahab | Computer simulations of biological active molecules (such as lipid) and their interactions with pharmaceutically important molecules; application of IT and modeling tools in pharmaceutically relevant problem. |
| Mehdi Riazi | Medical Microbiology and infectious diseases with a particular interest in the area of Medical Mycology and antifungal chemotherapy. |
| Nurzalina bt. Abd. Karim Khan | Semi-solid lipid matrices for the controlled release of therapeutic drugs, self-emulsifying drug delivery systems, lipid carriers for the bioavailability enhancement of drugs, characterization studies of pharmaceutical materials. |
| Pazilah Ibrahim | Studies on the growth pattern of Mycobacterium avium and its susceptibility to antimycobacterial agents - investigation at the cellular level using cytochemical indicators and fluorescence microscopy. |
| Peh Kok Khiang | Pharmaceutical dosage form design and development; transdermal drug delivery; buccal drug delivery; dermatological dosage forms; pelletized dosage forms; dermato-pharmacokinetics. |
| Saringat Hj. Baie | Tablet formulation and design; compaction and compression characteristics of pharmaceutical powder and other materials; stability of herbal formulations; materials testing. |
| Yuen Kah Hay | Controlled release formulations; gastrointestinal transit and absorption studies; pellet formulations; self-emulsifying systems and bioavailability; pharmaceutical applications of cyclodextrins. |
| Yusrida Darwis | Liposome technology and formulation. |
| Yvonne Tze Fung Tan | Pelletization; controlled-release dosage forms; design and development of dermatological, bioadhesive and transdermal preparations. |
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
| Name | Research Area |
| Aisyah Saad Abdul Rahim | Synthetic carbohydrate medicinal chemistry, particularly the stereoselective construction of natural glycopeptides, either via solution or solid phase synthesis and synthetic approaches towards the generation of glycosyl-substituted heterocyclic derivatives, which are designed to serve as anti-inflammatories and/or anticancers. |
| Amirin Sadikun | Synthesis and isolation of chemical components from traditional medicinal plants |
| Chan Kit Lam | Traditional/Herbal Medicine Research including Phytochemistry, Bioactivity-guided Fractionation, Toxicology and Standardization of Medicinal Herbs.Bioequivalent & Pharmacokinetic Studies. |
| Gam Lay Harn | Proteomics analysis on breast cancer tissue, Isoniazid resistant TB strain and macromolecule inhibitors in kidney stone diseases. Method development for standardization of Ikan haruan extracts. |
| Nornisah Mohamed | Pharmaceutical analysis, chromatographic method development of drugs in body fluid and N-nitrosoamines in food stuff. |
| Roziahanim Mahmud | Chemical and biochemical aspects of drug or herbal constituents adverse reaction; Elucidation of drug or herbal constituents bioactivation that can lead to reactive and toxic metabolites; Cyctochrome P450-catalyzed drug or herbal constituents metabolism and toxicity; Synthesis of new drug analogues; Quantitative – structure activity relationships. |
| Zhari Hj Ismail | Phytochemistry of medicinal plants having urolithic activity; standardization of herbal products; pharmacognosy; prodrugs synthesis and evaluation; taste and odour sensor profile of herbals for quality control |
Clinical Pharmacy
| Name | Research Area |
| Abdul Fatah Hj. Abdul Rahman | Clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs; issues in drug information services; poisoning and clinical toxicology. |
| Azmi Sarriff | Medication counseling and compliance; ambulatory care services and therapeutics; community pharmacy practice- pharmacy intervention, developing pharmaceutical care tools. |
| Mohd. Baidi Bahari | Development and evaluating the structural intervention program to reduce the risk of chronic childhood diseases at school level; nutrition status and intervention program in hospital and community setting; post marketing surveillance on the pharmaceutical product. |
| Noorizan Abdul Aziz | Pharmacotherapeutics in critical care patients; drug utilisation; drug usage evaluation; quality assurance |
| Saad Othman | General ethnopharmacology, oncopharmacology and ethno-oncopharmacology |
| Syed Azhar bin Syed Sulaiman | Hormone replacement therapy; clinical infectious disease; pharmacokinetic and toxicology |
| Yahaya Hassan | Drug utilisation evaluation; issues in clinical pharmacy practice; drug compliance studies; pharmacoepidemiology and outcome research |
| Zuraidah Mohd. Yusoff | Issues in woman health; drug use during pregnancy: pattern of drug use adn safety; counselling of pregnant patients regarding drug use; herbal drug use during pregnancy; pharmacoepidemiology. |
Social and Administrative Pharmacy
| Name | Research Area |
| Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali |
Quantitative and qualitative aspects of medication usage especially involving adherence and barriers to adherence, nonprescription medication – including purchasing patterns, prescription medication – including aspects of prescribing e.g. generic prescribing, off-label and unlicensed prescribing.
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