EXPERTISE
Biopharmaceutic studies
Professor Dr Habibah A Wahab FASc, the present Deputy ViceChancellor of Research and Innovation, USM, obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of London in 1999. Professor Habibah also joined USM as a lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences where she founded a research group, “Pharmaceutical Design and Simulation (PhD)”, which focuses on drug discovery research and delivery, particularly on the utilisation of structural bioinformatics. In 2002, she helped established the Laboratory of Biocrystallography and Structural Bioinformatics which later, in 2008, became the Centre for Chemical Biology, USM. Professor Habibah was seconded twice to Ministry of Science of Technology and Innovation; first, in 2008-2010, as Director and in 2012-2014, as Director General of Malaysian Institute of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals.