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Noor Munirah Isa joined the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya as a senior lecturer in 2014. Currently she teaches ethics in science as well as science communication for both undergraduates and postgraduates. She received her PhD in bioethics, an interesting multidisciplinary field of study, from the same department in September 2013. Her doctoral thesis was basically a study on how Muslim scholars conduct the ethical assessment of the selected applications of modern biotechnology from Islamic perspective, and how they deal with conventional perspective in this regard.

She has a keen interest on the subject of Islam, Muslim and science since high school. Inspired by the Muslim medieval polymaths, she studied biotechnology and Islamic studies for her bachelor’s degree. She was among the first batch of University of Malaya Applied Science with Islamic Studies undergraduate program who graduated in September 2007.

Her research interests include Islamic bioethics, ethics in science communication, biotechnology and society. Her main research focuses on studying the Islamic ethical concepts and principles that can enrich the global bioethical discourse and help the stakeholders in decision making. Currently she is a principle investigator for a research project that aims to explore Islamic ethical guidelines in preventing the transmission of mitochondrial diseases. This research would also expound Islamic perspective on mitochondrial replacement therapy and germline gene editing.  

She sees science communication as a crucial field of study in Malaysia and hopes that more research can be done in this area. As a start, she conducted a small research project in 2014-2016 that aimed to examine the role of Malay science fiction novels in communicating ethics in science and technology to the Malaysian public.

Last update: 28/1/2017