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Many congratulations to Adriel! We salute your dedication and perseverance in pursuing research that helps people detect iron impurities in their water source.

Our very own Associate Professor Dr. Kasturi Muthoosamy was invited as a panellist in the forum Celebrating Women in Science jointly organised by the British High Commission KL and the UK Science & Innovation Network.



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Mock viva session with Masters of Engineering Science candidate Mr. Leong Khok Lun from Tunku Abdul Rahman Unversity College (TARUC), with main supervisor Dr. Ho Mui Yen and co-supervisors Dr. Lee Xiau Yeen and Dr. Maxine Yee (UNM). All the best!

Have you ever wanted to take a look inside our chemical research laboratories? Our researchers and postgraduate students collaborated with NACWC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia to produce a video on Chemical Security Awareness. Here are some behind the scenes look at our team working in our labs!

Our lecturers, postgraduate research students and technical staff were involved in making a video to promote awareness about Chemical Security for the NACWC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our Dean too spoke about the collaboration on the awareness programme.
Here are some photos taken behind the scenes.
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Congratulations to Ms. Wong Xin Yi, PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Kasturi, for winning the Vice Chancellor's Medal!

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Congratulations to Dr. Kasturi for being appointed to the National Scientific Advisory Board of the National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC) Malaysia!

Since the Malaysian government announced the Movement Control Order on 18th March, our team members have been working from home. Besides spending quality time with family, some have discovered hidden talents in the kitchen.

Selamat Hari Raya and Eid Mubarak to our Muslim staff and students.

Dr Kasturi Muthoosamy is an Associate Professor at FOSE, UNM. Her research area includes designing drug delivery platforms using nano-graphene composites for targeted delivery of anti-cancers drugs. She is also focused on biosensing for cancer cell detection using protein-modified
nanoparticles.

Currently she is focused on development of theranostics systems, which combines diagnostics, drug delivery and imaging at cancer sites. She has both local and international collaborators, with lab attachments at top research institutes, namely ICN2, Barcelona, Spain and University of Southampton, UK via prestigious international grants.

She was also selected to represent Malaysia to OPCW, at The Hague, Netherlands, quite a rare opportunity for private university academicians.

She currently heads the Nanotechnology Research Group in UNM. To know more about her work, do visit: https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Engineering/People/kasturi.muthoosamy

Learn more about “Nanotheranostics” at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.9b08133. The Nanotech Research Group would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ms Wong Xin Yi on her recent publication in ACS Nano entitled “Nanomaterials for Nanotheranostics: Tuning Their Properties According to Disease Needs’. This project is funded by FRGS (MOHE), in collaboration with Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain. Ms Xin Yi had the opportunity for a one year lab attachment at ICN2, Spain.

Nanotech Research Group welcomes Mr Newton Lo Well, PhD student enrolled in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, under the supervision of Prof Dr. Sivakumar Manickam. Mr Newton is funded by the FRGS grant (Year 2019, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia) and is working on nanomaterial synthesis for biosensing applications. For more information on Prof Dr Sivakumar’s research, please visit: https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Engineering/People/sivakumar.manickam

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