{"id":72,"date":"2014-04-08T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2016-07-26T01:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:27:45","slug":"72-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/72-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer and Stem Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>INTRODUCTION<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Cancer and Stem Cell cluster brings together researchers in basic, translational and applied research in a unified effort to conduct research in cancer and stem cells. Both areas are amongst the hottest research topics worldwide currently. The burden of cancer is increasing every year and in Malaysia more than 40,000 new cases are diagnosed annually. The challenges for the researchers include understanding the biology of cancers, discovering new biomarkers for early detection and prognostication of cancers, as well as finding new targets for therapy. Cancer research is indeed very competitive and billions of dollars are being pumped into research in countries like USA and also in Europe. Locally, the amount of funding is rather limited hence researchers should be focused and also address research questions which are somewhat local in context but where the answers could well be extended globally. This will require scientists to work closely with the clinicians to formulate the relevant research questions. Stem cell research is fast developing in Malaysia and UKM is one of the institutions with a good number of researchers in this area. The promise that stem cells could potentially provide us all with products to repair and regenerate damaged and diseased tissues and organs makes this an important research focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH GROUPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>a) Cancer Biomarkers<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup Leader :Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal<\/p>\n<p>Team Members<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Datuk Dr A Rahman A Jamal<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor Dr. Roslan Harun<\/li>\n<li>Professor Dr.\u00a0Hamidah Alias<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor Dr. Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nor Azian Abdul Murad<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nurul Syakima Ab Mutalib<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>b) Breast Cancer<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup Leader : Professor Dr. Sharifah Noor Akmal<br \/>\nTeam Members<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Sharifah Noor Akmal Syed Husain<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Rohaizak Muhammad<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Siti Aishah Mohd Ali<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor Dato\u2019 Dr. Fuad Ismail<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Zarina Abd. Latif<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor Dr. Norlia Abdullah<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Nurismah Md Isa<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Saladina Jaszle Jasmin<\/p>\n<p>Members from other institution<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Aina Imran (Ministry of Health)<\/p>\n<p><strong>c) Stem Cells and Leukemia<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup Leader : Professor Datin Dr. Noor Hamidah Hussin<\/p>\n<p>Team Members<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Datin Dr. Noor Hamidah Hussin<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Sharifah Noor Akmal Syed Hussain<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Mohd Abdul Jamil bin Mohd Yassin<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Syed Zulkifli Syed Zakaria<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Dr. Mohd Hashim Omar<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor Dr. Leong Chooi Fun<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor Dr. Noraidah Masir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION The Cancer and Stem Cell cluster brings together researchers in basic, translational and applied research in a unified effort to conduct research in cancer<a class=\"ut-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/72-2\/\"> &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/nictkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}