background - HIR - University of Malaya

background - HIR - University of Malaya

ORGANIZATION
CHART
BACKGROUND
MISSION
To conduct worldclass research in niche
areas and elevate the
international reputation
and world university
ranking of the
university.
linkage with ivyleague universities and
conduct collaborative
research with academic
icons, including Nobel
Laureates
Recognizing the
importance of UM as a
premier research institution
in the country, the Ministry
Education (MoE)
Malaysia in August
Forge
2011 injected
linkages
with successful
RM590 million into
Malaysian
the UM-MoE HIR
scientists
overseas
programme with
the mandate that
UM must break into
Set
the top 100 QS World
up a Central
University
Rankings
Core Facility
housing cutting
by 2015. In 2010, UM was
edge equipment
placed 207 under the QS
for use by UM as
well as other local
World University Ranking
universities
but in 2011, UM leapt 40
positions to be ranked 167,
and went up another 11 spots to
156 in 2012.
To promote
multidisciplinary research
and research collaboration
with local and overseas
universities which can
result in publications
in high impact
To accomplish its vision
journals.
and mission, HIR will
strive to :
OBJECTIVE
Attract
top notch
postgraduate
students to do
research and help
meet national
needs Target
publications
in top Tier 1 ISI/
WoS journals,
including Nature
and Science
Work
with
industry
partners to train
young scientists
in enhancing
research skills
Identify
new and
advancing
research fronts and implement
new technologies
into research
FUNDED PROJECTS
Currently, UM HIR is supported by the UM Chancellory
Grant of RM10 million per year as well as the special
allocation of RM590 million from MoE until 2015.
No of Project
Budget (RM)
17
72,919,330
Medicine
23
52,715,469
Engineering
12
57,534,645
Science
8
13,194,753
Dentistry
4
3,141,090
9
104,451,948
Chancellory
0
-
Social Science
73
303,957,235
Computer Science and IT
Total:
2013-2015
2012-2015
2011-2015
Field
Cycle 3
Cycle 2
Cycle 1
No of Projects
Budget (RM)
5
18,677,800
27
63,208,120
-
0
13
15,092,351
6
3,201,200
2
6,289,250
-
0
53
106,468,721
Central HIR Secretariat
Assistant Registrar
Siti Zawahir Zubir
The University of Malaya High Impact Research (UM
HIR) was the brainchild of UM Vice-Chancellor, Tan Sri
Dr. Ghauth Jasmon. In February 2010, Tan Sri VC agreed
to provide RM10 million per year from internal fund to
support fundamental research which will
lead to ISI/WoS Tier 1 publications.
To date, 101 projects have
been supported under this
Establish
Chancellory HIR grant.
international
VISION
HIR Organization Chart
Vice Chancellor
Professor Dato’ Dr. Mohd
Amin Jalaludin
No. of Projects
Budget (RM)
23
15,856,404
11
12,635,648
16
23,495,488
3
5,410,531
4
1,196,200
3
76,778,254
6
10,718,650
66
146,091,175
Central Committee
Finance Officer
Norshahidayu Ali
Young
Scientist
Advisory
Council
1. Nobel Fellows
2. Academic Icons
3. UM Emeritus
Professors
4. Senior Professors
Canada
• Ryerson University
• University of Alberta Edmonton
• University of Calgary
• University of Ottawa
• University of Ryerson
Principal
Investigators
Visiting
Scientists/
Collaborators
1. Senior Researcher
2. HIR Post Docs
3. Research Assistant
4. Project Assistant
5. Post graduate Students
Secretariat
Central & Faculty
1. Officers
2. Support Staff
Faculty
Committees
1. Medic
2. Engineering
3. Science
4. Dentistry
5. IT
Technical
Committee
INTERNATIONAL
COLLABORATION
Iceland
• University of Iceland
United States
• A&M University
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Beckman Research Institute
• California Institute of
Technology
• Centers For Disease Control
• Duke University
• Emory University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Michigan University
• National Institutes of Health
• New England Biolabs
• Northstate University
• Northwestern University
• Oregon State University
• Queens College City University
• San Francisco State University
• St. Johns University
• The University of Texas
• University of Buffalo
• University of California
• University of Dayton
• University of Maryland
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University of South Florida
• University of WisconsinMadison
• Wayne State University
• Yale university
Brazil
• University of
Sao Paulo
Belgium
• Free University of Brussel
• Ghent University
Finland
• University of Helsinki
France
• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Centre National De La Recherche
Scientifique
• University of Toulouse
• Strasbourg Cédex
• Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique
German
• Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular
Biology and Applied Ecology
• Fritz Haber Institute Max Planck
Ireland
• University of Ireland
• University of Limerick
Italy
• University of Bologna
Norway
• Nofima Marine
• Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige
Universitet
Spain
• Abengoa Research
• Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe
Sweden
• Karolinska Institutet
United Kingdom
• Aberystwyth University
• Bath University
• Cardiff University
• Dundee University
• Durham University
• Heriot-Watt University
• Imperial College
• John Innes Institute of Plant Science
• King’s London College
• Lancaster University
• Leeds University
• Loughborough University
• Oxford University
• Queen’s University
• The Institute of Cancer Research
• University College London
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Harvard
• University of Kingston
Iran
• Islamic Azad
University • Kharazmi
University
• Razi
University
• Shahid Beheshti
University of Medical
Sciences
• The Iranian Academic
Center for Education
• University of
Tehran
Kuwait
• Kuwait
University
Oman
• Sultan Qaboos
University
United Arab Emirates
• University Al-Ain
• University of Leicester
• University of Liverpool
• University of London
• University of Manchester
• University of Newcastle
• University of Nottingham
• University of Oxford
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University of Stirling
• University of Surrey
• University of Ulster
• University of Warwick
• Univesity of the West of
England
Australia
• Bond University
• Centre for Reference and
Research on Influenza
• Deakin University
• Griffith University
• International Centre for
Radio Astronomy Research
• Monash Medical Centre
• Monash University
• Queensland University of
Technology
• Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology
• The Australian National
University
• The Prince Charles Hospital
• The University of Adelaide
• The University of Queensland
• The University of Sydney
• University of Adelaide
• University of Melbourne
• University of New South
Wales
• University of Wollongong
New Zealand
• The University of Auckland
• University of Otago
• University of Waikato
Principal Assistant Science
Officer
Lim Moo Eng
Assistant Science Officer
Project Assistant
Arif Fakhrie Johari
Rahimah Ismail
Rosyida Rosli
Alsaddam Suhaimi
Nabilah Ahmad
Nurfarahin Abdul Rahman
Muhammad Aizat Iskandar
1. Committee
2. Research
Coordinator
3. Responsible Officers
4. Technical Staff
Bangladesh
• Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology
• Khulna University
• Rajshahi University
China
• Central China Normal University
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Dalian University of Technology
• Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai
• Peking University
• Qinghai University for Nationalities
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Sun Yat-sen University
• Xiamen University
Hong Kong
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
India
• Aditanar College of Engineering
• Chennai University
• Indian Statistical Institute
• Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Maharshi Dayanand University
• Orissa University of Agril and Tech
Indonesia
• Gadjah Mada University
• Mataram University
• Universitas Islam Indonesia
Japan
• Hiroshima University
• Hokkaido University
• Keio University
• Kumam University of Tokyo
• Kyoto University • Kyushu University
• Masanobu Satake, Tohoku University
• Multimedia University
• Nagaoka University of Technology
• National Institute of Infectious Diseases
• RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine
• Tohoku University
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Tokyo University of Science
• Tsukuba University
• Yamaguchi University
Korea
• Institute of Science and Technlogy
• Korea University
• Sahmyook University
Pakistan
• Ghulam Ishak Khan Institute of
Engineering
• Lahore University of Management
Sciences
Singapore
• Genome Institute of Singapore
• Nanyang Technological University
• National University of Singapore
• Singapore Immunology Network
Taiwan
• National Cheng Kung University
• National Chiao Tung
• National Quemoy University
• National Synchrotron Radiation Centre
• National Taiwan Ocean University
• National Taiwan University
• National Taiwan University of Science &
Technology
• National Tsing Hua University
• National University of Kaohsiung
Thailand
• Kaunas University of Technology
• Mahidol University
• Naresuan University
Vietnam
• Research Institute for Aquaculture 2
Project Officer
Azbullah Che Ibrahim
Mohd Faiz Othman
Ain Valerie Cassera Rapoi
Hamizah Husain
General Office Assistant
Hafiz Mohd Nor
HIR COMMITTEE
Professor Dato’
Dr. Mohd Amin
Jalaludin
Chairman
Professor Dr.
Mohd Ali Hashim
Emeritus
Professor Dato’
Dr. Lam Sai Kit
Emeritus
Professor Dr. Yong
Hoi Sen
Professor Dr.
Rofina Yasmin
Othman
Professor Dr.
Norsaadah Abdul
Rahman
Puan Haliza Harun
ADVISORY COUNCIL
UM Nobel Fellow
Dr. Barry Marshall
(Nobel Prize in
Physiology or
Medicine, 2005)
Professor of Clinical
Microbiology at
the University of
Western Australia
UM Nobel Fellow
Dr. Ryoji Noyori
(Nobel Prize in
Chemistry, 2001)
President of RIKEN
Institute and
Professor at Nagoya
University
UM Nobel Fellow
Dr. David Baltimore
(Nobel Prize in
Physiology or
Medicine, 1975)
Robert A. Millikan
Professor of Biology
at the California
Institute of
Technology
UM Distinguished
Fellow Dr. Rita
Colwell
Distinguished
University Professor
at the University of
Maryland at College
Park and at Johns
Hopkins University
Bloomberg School
of Public Health
UM Distinguished
Fellow Dr. Wong
Chi-Huey
President of
Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, and Chief
Science Advisor
of the Ministry of
Science, Taiwan
HIR HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENT
TIER-1 PUBLICATIONS
Merdeka Awardees’
Flagship Projects
Professor Dato’ Dr.
Goh Khean Lee
Emeritus Professor
Dr. Yong Hoi Sen
Professor Dr.
Harith Ahmad
Emeritus Professor
Dato’ Dr. Lam Sai
Kit
Dr. Chan Kok Gan
Bacteria Quorum
Quenching
Nature Microbiome.
Collaborator – Nobel
Laureate Richard J.
Roberts
CENTRAL CORE FACILITIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
HiSeq 2500
PacBio RSII
Photon/CCD Camera
Gas Chromatography/
Mass Spectrometry
(GC/MS)
CUTTING EDGE
FACILITIES
Dr. Ea Chee Kwee
Epigenetic
Regulation of
Immune Response
against Cell Wall
of Gram Negative
Bacteria.
Collaborator - Nobel
Laureate David
Baltimore
Professor Dr.
Jamuna Vadivelu
Molecular Genetics
Helicobacter pylori
Research.
Collaborator – Nobel
Laureate Barry
Marshall
Professor Dr. Nur
Aishah Mohd Taib
Breast Cancer Project:
Epidemiology,
Genetics, Pathology,
Investigator Initiated
Trials.
Collaborators – Breast
Cancer Association
Consortium
Professor Dr.
Faisal Rafiq
Mahamad Adikan
Flat Fibre Research
Central Advanced
Research Enabler
Facility
Associate
Professor Dr. Ng Ching Ching
Genome Organization
in Diseases: from
Mutations to
Structural Variations
and Epigenetics.
Collaborators - RIKEN
Institute
A wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation and technologies in various fields, particluarly
in genomics, cellomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. Available for use by researchers in UM
and other local universities.
5. Gas ChromatographyMIDI 1
6. LC-MS/MS 1
7. GC-Q-TOF 1
8. Biolog OmniLog GEN
III Combo Plus System
9. Liquid Handling
System
10. Microflex MALDI-TOF
11. Nanostring n-Counter
12. Microarray 1
13. Atomic Emission
Spectrometer
14. Rotary Evaporator
15. Orbitrap Fusion
Microflex
MALDI-TOF Mass
Spectrometry
System
Orbitrap Fusion Mass
Spectrometer
16. Ion Torrent 1 Room
17. Micromanipulator 1
18. BioMark HD Reader
19. C1 Single-Cell
AutoPrep
Biolog Omnilog System
20.ChIP 1
21. ProteOn XPR 36
22.LC-QTOF-MS-NMR
GC Q-TOF
Breast density speaks volumes-An argument for this
standardisation of clinical breast density measurement based
on 3D data.
Ng, K.H., Yip, C.H. and Taib, N.A.
Lancet Oncology 13(4): 334-336 (2012)
Minimal Residual Disease–Guided Treatment Deintensification for
Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Results From the
Malaysia-Singapore Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 2003 Study
Yeoh, A., Ariffin H., Chai E, et al.
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 30(19) : 2384-2392 (2012)
DODIPY dyes in photodynamic therapy.
Anyanee Kamkaew, Siang Hui Lim, Lee, H.B., Kiew, V.K., Chung,
L.Y. and Burgess, K.
Chemical Society Reviews 42: 77-88 (2013) A Review on Distributed Application Processing Frameworks
in Smart Mobile Devices for Mobile Cloud Computing
Shiraz M., Gani A., Khokhar R.H. and Buyya, R. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 15(3): 1294 – 1313
(2013)
Controlling Double Quantum Coherence and Electromagnetic
Induced Transparency with Plasmonic Metallic Nanoparticle.
Ooi, R.C.H. and Tan, K.S.
Plasmonics 8(2): 891-898, (2013)
Development and Evaluation of New Coupling System for
Lower Limb Prostheses with Acoustic Alarm System.
Eshraghi, N.A Abu Osman, H. Gholizadeh , J. Ahmadian , B.
Rahmati and W.A.B. Wan Abas
Nature Scientific Reports, 3: 1-5, (2013)
EHMT1 Protein binds to nuclear factor-kappaB p50 and
represses gene expression
Ea C.K., Hao S., Yeo K.S., Baltimore D.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 287: 31207-31217 (2012)
Epigenetics analysis leads to identification of HNFIB as a
subtype-specific sustainability gene for ovarian cancer.
Breast Cancer Association Consortium
Nature Communication 4, 1-7 (2013)
Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negativespecific breast cancer risk loci.
Breast Cancer Association Consortium
Nature Genetics 45, 392-398 (2013)
GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new
susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer.
Breast Cancer Association Consortium
Nature Genetics 45, 362–370 (2013)
BioMark HD Reader
Nanostring
Technologies
Tunable synthesis and in situ growth of silicon-carbon
mesostructures using impermeable plasma
Yaghoubi, A. and Melinon, P.
Nature Scientific Reports 3: 1-6, (2013)
ProteOn XPR 36
The diagnostic performance of a single geneXpert MTB/RIF
assay in an intensified tuberculosis case finding survey among
HIV-infected prisoners in Malaysia
Abed Al-Darraji H.A., Abd Razak H., Ng K.P., Altice F.L., and
Kamarulzaman, A.
PLOS One, 8 (Issue 9):e73717 (2013)
Distinct genetic clades of Malaysian Copera damselflies and
the phylogeny of platycnemine subfamilies
Phaik-Eem Lim, Ji Tan,Praphathip Eamsobhana & Hoi Sen
Yong
Nature Scientific Reports 3, 2977 doi:10.1038/srep02977 (2013)
Development and Evaluation of New Coupling System for
Lower Limb Prostheses with Acoustic Alarm System
Arezoo Eshraghi, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Hossein Gholizadeh,
Jalil Ahmadian, Bizhan Rahmati & Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas
Nature Scientific Reports 3, 2270 doi:10.1038/srep02270,(2013)
In-situ electrochemically deposited polypyrrole nanoparticles
incorporated reduced graphene oxide as an efficient counter
electrode for platinum-free dye-sensitized solar cells..
Lim Su Pei, Alagarsamy Pandikumar, Lim Yee Seng, Huang Nay
Ming & Lim Hong Ngee.
Nature Scientific Reports 4: 5305. DOI: 10.1038/srep05305
(2014)
Highly exposed {001} facets of titanium dioxide modified
with reduced graphene oxide for dopamine sensing. Scientific
Reports.
Gregory Thien Soon How, Alagarsamy Pandikumar, Huang Nay
Ming, and Lim Hong Ngee.
Nature Scientific Reports 4: 5044. DOI:10.1038/srep05044
(2014)
Tunable Radio Frequency Generation Using a Graphene-Based
Single Longitudinal Mode Fiber Laser
Ahmad H., Muhammad F.D., Zulkifli M.Z., Latif A.A., and Harun
S.W.
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 30(13): 2097-2102 (2012)
UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR)
Illumina HiSeq2500
PacBio SMRT NGS
HIGH IMPACT
RESEARCH (UM HIR)
High Impact Research Building
University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 603 7967 3231 | Fax: 603 7967 7727
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.hir.um.edu.my
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