Teoh Teow Chong received his BSc in Biochemistry in 1996, MSc in Biochemistry in 2000, and PhD in Computational Chemistry in 2008, from University of Malaya. He has been teaching started as a school teacher, to Lecturer since 1990 in various educational institutions, such as primary school, smart school, KDU college, Taylor’s College and Stamford College and tutors in OUM and IMU for 20 years until finally back in the University of Malaya in 2009 as Senior Lecturer. His research interests are focusing in drug design by molecular docking and molecular dynamics, chemical analysis by HPLC and LCMS, and transcriptomics of fungal species.     He has been the webmaster of Institute of Biological Sciences (ISB) since 2009, the Coordinator of Master of Bioinformatics since 2016, Faculty of Science, UM, and the committee member of JKIT, ISB, UM, and the Secretary for Malaysian Society Of Marine Sciences (MSMS).  He has been the company consultant for Ganofarm R&D Sdn. Bhd since 2010. He also served as organization committee for multiple international and national conferences, including the Quantum & Non-linear Optics Conference (QNO 2019), Bio Asia-Pacific Conference Series 2016, ICMSM 2009, ACCMS 2017, ACCIS 2017, and Biosymposium of ISB. He has also presented numerous conference papers including in the 10th Asia Pacific Biotech Congress in Bangkok, International Symposium On Computational Science in Japan and The First International Workshop on Computational Biophysics in Vietnam. Besides, he is the co-owner of US patent and China patent in the production bioethanol from biomass as an alternative biofuel. He was also the Company Director of MyEZfuel Sdn. Bhd., a spin-off company by the UM Holdings. To date, he has graduated 5 MSc and 2 PhD graduates and currently supervising 2 PhD researchers, 2 Master of Bioinformatics researchers and 2 undergraduate students.

Dr. Lai Meng Yee graduated with Bachelor of Science degree (Microbiology) in 2006 from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She obtained her Master of Biotechnology in 2011 and Doctorate degree in 2018 from Universiti Malaya. She served as post-doc research fellow at the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine from 2019 to 2024. She is currently serving as a senior lecturer at the same department since July 2024. Dr. Lai’s area of expertise are molecular parasitology, molecular epidemiology and diagnostic kit development. Dr. Lai carries out host parasite interaction study to investigate the relationship between parasites and its’ host cell receptors/ligands. She successful find out the potential host cell binding partner of Toxoplasma gondii during the invasion. Dr. Lai is also interested in exploring the mechanisms of malaria infections and the interactions between infected patients and malaria parasite invasion using a molecular epidemiology approach. She also interested to investigate the distribution of zoonotic malaria parasites, originally transmitted from non-human primates through mosquito bites. Other than that, Dr. Lai also works on the identification and differentiation of human malaria and zoonotic malaria parasites using various molecular techniques, such as real-time PCR analysis, recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). By employing these molecular techniques, Dr. Lai has developed numerous diagnostic methods for malaria, SARS-CoV-2, and dengue. These methods and primers had been patented. Dr. Lai’s dedication and hard work have resulted in more than 40 ISI-Cited publications, making substantial contributions to science and technology. Dr Lai also also have been awarded a few times for the innovation in research including Gold, and Medal prizes from Korea Creative Invention Contest, CIC 2017, Cabaran Inovasi  Inklusif 2018 Zon Tengah, World Invention Innovation Contest (WiC) 2018, International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2022 and Innovasi Kreativiti Teknologi Keusahawanan dan Masyarakat (organized by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan). To date, she has published more than 40 ISI-cited publications with total citations index of 470 and H-index of 13. Also, she has assisted more than 25 PGs in their research projects. 2 Master and 1 PhD students have completed their study. Recently, she is awarded a research grant from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, to further her zoonotic malaria research. Overall, Dr. Lai’s steadfast dedication to scientific research and innovation has propelled significant progress in disease detection and prevention, highlighting her as an outstanding young scientist and a role model for the scientific community.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricia Nora Riget is a senior lecturer at the Department of Asian and European Languages, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She was formerly the Head of Department of Asian and European Languages, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (2012-2016) and also the Deputy Director of the International Relations Centre, Universiti Malaya (2019 - 2022). Her achievements include being conferred the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the Government of France in 2019. The award recognises Dr. Patricia’s contribution to the strengthening of cooperation in the French language and culture between France and Malaysia. Patricia received her Bachelor and Master of Arts (Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) from Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France and her Master 2 Research and Doctorate in Language Sciences (Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) from Université de Strasbourg, France. She has to-date published more than 30 papers in respectable journals, books and conference proceedings both locally and internationally. Her research interests are in the areas of didactics of foreign languages, language education and ethnolinguistic. Her secondary interest is in the area of internationalisation of higher education institutions.