Firdaus Aziz serves as a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya. His research interests encompass medical law, biosafety law, and the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies, including stem cell technology, biobanking, and gene editing. He earned his BSc (Hons) in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Universiti Malaya and subsequently received the National Science Fellowship to pursue an MA in Biotechnological Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield. He later completed a DPhil in Public Health at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he focused on stem cell law and ethics at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX). Since 2016, he has been actively involved in promoting bioethics in the region as a UNESCO Bioethics Trainer. Additionally, he is a co-investigator for the Southeast Asian Bioethics Network, supported by the UK Wellcome Trust, with the aim to establishing a bioethics network in the region, and a co-investigator for the NIH Fogarty grant to develop a Master's program in Health Research Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya.
PROFILE
Address
Dean's Office, Faculty of Law Office of The, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Website
umexpert.um.edu.my/firdausaziz
CONTACT
Telephone
0379676509
Email
firdausaziz
firdauschin
RESEARCH ID
Orcid id
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2426-5284
Researcher id
W-4451-2017
Scopus id
57212889572