Dr. Jufri Hidayat is a registered Nurse (RN) from Indonesia with 3 years of clinical experience and 5 years of research and teaching assistantship. He completed his PhD in Nursing at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS), Taiwan, in July 2023. Gained international academic and professional exposure in Germany. He is currently serving as Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. His ongoing research include HIV Care, mental health, exercise, geriatric care, community nursing, and health disparities. He is expert in both quatitative and qualitative. 

In 2017,  after completing my PhD at The University of Sydney, I joined the Pharmacology Department, Universiti Malaya as a senior lecturer. My research interest is in groups of molecules secreted during cellular stress, injury, and inflammation called damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs). They have been implicated in the pathogenesis of various inflammatory diseases and cancer. My aim is to better understand their secretory pathway(s) and the mechanism(s) by which they contribute to cancer development and progression, especially in colorectal cancer. I hope that with more profound knowledge in these areas, more future studies will be conducted, paving the way for discovering novel pathways that can be targeted to combat cancer.  In addition to my interest in inflammation and cancer research, I am also passionate about teaching.  I am involved in teaching Pharmacology subjects for various Bachelor degree courses including Dentistry, Nursing, Medicine, and Biomedical Science. I am also the coordinator of Biomedical Science in the Pharmacology department. 

Izlin is currently the Deputy Dean Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya. She was formerly the Head of Department of Finance and Banking, as well as the Director for the Centre of Business Excellence (CBE@UM) at the faculty. She has also served as the Deputy Director at the International Institute of Public Policy and Management (INPUMA). Prior to academia, she was a corporate analyst at a multinational corporation. Izlin graduated with a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc in Investment Management from Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and PhD at Nottingham University Business School. She has published in indexed journals in areas such as international finance, microfinance, financial literacy, fintech and energy finance. She has also published several books including a financial literacy handbook for primary school students, as well as research-based books on consumer financial vulnerabilities, and Fintech in Malaysia. Izlin has been appointed as consultant for several projects such as on financial literacy for primary schools, economic enhancement programmes for public infrastructure projects and the global services sector. She has also led 10 out of 20 research projects with a total grant value of more than RM2 million. Her recent projects include financial literacy workshops for vulnerable groups including pensioners, migrant workers as well as students. She is also a trainer for finance-related courses in corporate certification programmes. As for supervision, she has supervised more than 12 PhD and 50 Master students to completion.