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Dr. Mohammed Alshawsh is currently working as Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD from Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 2012. After his one-year postdoc at University of Malaya, he joined Department of Pharmacology, University of Malaya in 2013. Since then he has been doing preclinical research in the area of drug discovery, probiotics, metabolic syndrome, cancer and safety pharmacology. His current research interests mainly focus on pharmacological investigations of flavonoids, polyphenols, probiotics and their role in the management of colorectal cancer, obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver diseases as well as investigating the underlying molecular mechanisms of actions and signalling pathways. Experienced in the area of synergistic drug combinations and toxicology including acute, subacute, and chronic toxicity, genotoxicity, teratogenicity and postnatal developmental toxicity. Dr. Alshawsh is a scientist member of Faculty of Medicine-Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (FOM-IACUC)-University of Malaya. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal "BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies". He supervised 1 Master and 7 PhD students to completion; currently, he is supervising 2 Master and 5 PhD students. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 13 and has given over 20 invited and plenary lectures at international conferences as well as facilitated more than 15 national and international workshops. He has obtained several research grants, such as UMRG, BKS, PPP and FRGS.