Professor Hany Ariffin  is  Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the Division of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). She also heads the Biobank Unit in the Faculty of Medicine and is a member of the UM Senate.  Her main research interest is childhood leukaemia and she has been the Malaysian lead for the Malaysia-Singapore (MASPORE) Leukaemia Study Group since 2003. Her other research areas include childhood cancer survivorship, stem cell transplantation and inherited cancers. In 2015, she won the Anugerah Akademik Negara award and in 2018 received the Distinguished Researcher Award from University Malaya. Professor Hany is chairperson of the paediatric oncology accreditation committee for the National Specialist Register and a past president of the Malaysian Society of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology. She is also the chairperson of the VIVA-Asia Bone Marrow Transplantation Consortium. Professor Hany is an Editorial Board member of JCO Global Oncology and OncoDaily as well as an Associate Editor for Technology in Cancer Reseach &Treatment (Tumour Biology) and Frontiers in Oncology (Paediatric Oncology).       

Norafida Ab Ghafar, has started her teaching career at University of Malaya in 1996 as a lecturer inArchitecture Department. Earned Master in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University and Ph.D inSustainable Architecture from University of Nottingham. These make her research more holistic whereshe can contribute in macro and micro context scope. She was a Head of UCTA (Urban, Conservationand Tropical Architecture Research Unit) and was the Head of Architecture School. Her researchincludes the Passive solar building, Zero Energy Building, Universal design, and livable city.

Debra Si-Mui Sim is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.  She obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Liverpool, U.K., before joining the present university as a lecturer in 1984. She retired as a professor in 2018, after 34 years of service. Even after retirement, she is still active in the education field, serving as the principal of Charis international school in Tawau, Sabah. During her tenure at the University of Malaya, Debra played a pivotal role in the introduction of problem-based learning (PBL) in the university’s MBBS programme in 1999/2000.  She was also instrumental in introducing interprofessional learning (IPL) through her FAIMER project on the training of prescribing skills in medical students, which developed into a module that involves collaborative learning between final-year medical and pharmacy students (since 2008). Just before retirement, she initiated a living-lab study on medicinal wastage. Debra’s research interests include snake venom pharmacology, PBL, IPL, and action research. She has published in both scientific and educational journals and books in the above areas. She has also won several awards (notably the AAN 2016 in Teaching category) for her teaching-learning innovations and research works.