Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM

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Professor Ian Chi Kei Wong

Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM

Distinguished Professorship is an initiative of the UKM to develop research capacity at UKM. Distinguished professors are international leading researchers in their own fields. Distinguished professor in pharmacy has regular on-line meetings with young researchers at the Faculty of Pharmacy and academic visits to nurture the next generation of pharmacy research leaders.

Professor Ian Wong graduated with Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Pharmacy from School of Pharmacy, University of Sunderland, England in 1991 and Doctorate from the School of Medicine, University of Manchester, in 1997. Currently, Prof. Ian Wong holds a joint-appointment as a Chair Professor of Pharmacy Practice at School of Pharmacy, University College of London (UCL) and Lo Shiu Kwan Kan Po Ling Endowed Professorship in Pharmacy at Hong Kong University (HKU). He is currently a visiting professor of King’s College London, University of Manchester and University of Auckland.

He is an academic pharmacist with over 450 publications in pharmacoepidemiology and big data research. He was ranked in the top 1% of scholars in Clarivate Analytics’ Essential Science Indicators for seven years in a row, between 2015 and 2021. He has successfully supervised more than 30 PhD students. He also received over £8 million in research fundings as the principal investigator and nearly £200 million as a co-investigator in Europe and Hong Kong. He founded a UCL spin-off company that developed three licensed prescription-only medicines in Europe, and he also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Jacobson Medical (a publicly listed company). He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the European Medicines Agency, and the Departments of Health in England and Hong Kong.

Prof. Ian Wong has been actively involved in the pharmacy field for almost 30 years, to date. He has won many prestigious awards such as Chemist and Druggist Pharmacy Practice Research Conference Model by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 2004, National Public Health Career Scientist Award by the Department of Health in 2002, and John M Harrison Award (Travel) by the College of Pharmacy Practice in 1999. He has also received fellowships and honorary fellowships from various esteemed academic and professional bodies such as British Pharmacological Society, International Society of Pharmacovigilance, College of Pharmacy Practice of Hong Kong, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Mr. Leonard Ariff Bin Abdul Shatar
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM
Executive Director Duopharma Biotech Berhad 

Mr. Leonard Ariff Bin Abdul Shatar obtained his Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Economics from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has over 30 years of working experience in various capacities; legal, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Upon graduation in 1988, he was a pupil at a Kuala Lumpur law firm and also worked for the Petronas Group of Companies. In 1990, he joined the Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad (“CCM Berhad”) Group, where his main responsibilities were related to business development and management of CCM Chemicals Sdn. Bhd. Then, he became the Managing Director of Usaha Pharma (M) Sdn. Bhd., which is CCM Berhad’s pharmaceutical retail business. In 2003, he joined ICI Paints Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. as a General Manager and was promoted to Managing Director in 2005, before being appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of CCM Duopharma Biotech Berhad. He was then promoted to be a Director of CCM Berhad’s Chemicals Division from October 2014 until December 2015. He was also named Group Managing Director of CCM Berhad on 9 January 2015, a post he held until 28 December 2017, when he was appointed to the Board of Duopharma Biotech Berhad and became Group Managing Director. Mr. Leonard Ariff is also the Director of Monash University Malaysia Sdn Bhd and a member of Monash University Malaysia’s Business School Advisory Committee. He has been appointed to participate in the Ministry of Education’s CEO @ Faculty programme (UKM). From 2009 until 2014, he served as President of the Malaysian Organisation of Pharmaceutical Industries. He is a member of the Institute of Enterprise Risk Practitioners and has completed the Qualified Risk Director (QRD) programme (IERP). He was appointed as a trustee for the National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia on March 31, 2021. Mr. Leonard Ariff is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Directors (ICDM). On top of that, he is also involved in various international public companies such as PanGen Biotech Inc. (Korea) and SCM Lifescience Inc. (Korea).

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