Dr. Shani Ann Mani graduated in 1995 from The Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R Medical University, Chennai, India with a Bachelor in Dental Surgery and in 1998 from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Panjab University), Chandigarh, India with a Master of Dental Surgery (Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry). She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow. She enjoys teaching having been in academia for more than 22 years, teaching Paediatric Dentistry to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She was appointed the post-graduate coordinator in Paediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry, University Malaya since 2014. She has been an external and internal examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate students during her career. She is also keen in research and has authored about 30 articles published in international and national peer-reviewed journals, majority being indexed in the ISI Web of Science database, and also contributed to chapters in books. She routinely reviews manuscripts for international journals in her field of specialisation and is on the editorial board of the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry,  Malaysian Journal of Paediatric Dentistry and BMC Oral Health.  She has also obtained research grants pertaining to her research in Paediatric Dentistry over the course of her career. She is a member of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry and Malaysian Association of Paediatric Dentistry besides other academic associations.    

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.  

Dr Monika@Munirah binti Abd Razzak is an Associate Professor at Department of Al-Quran and Al-Hadith, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. She obtained her doctorate degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Quranic and Sunnah Studies. Her research interests are in the area of Quranic studies, Quranic exegesis, media application in Quranic & hadith studies, Quranic science and health science. Previously, as a Head Department of Al-Quran & al-Hadith APIUM and also as Editor-in-Chief for al-Bayan journal. To date, she is a principal investigator of several research projects, and the research findings have been presented in many conferences and published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. In addition, in order to develop into a multidisciplinary researcher, she is moving forward to build her research network by collaborating with researchers from different local and international institutions.