Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation

Professor Habibah A Wahab, the present Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of London in 1999.

In 1999, Habibah joined USM, as a lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences where she found a research group “Pharmaceutical Design and Simulation (PhD)” which focuses on research on drug discovery and delivery especially those focus on the utilization of structural bioinformatics.

In 2002, she helped established Laboratory of Biocrystallography and Structural Bioinformatics which later in 2008 became Centre for Chemical Biology, USM. 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.

Updated September 10^th 2024