PhD (Microbiology), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1994
MBA (Finance/Marketing), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2000
DVM, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, 1988
Professional Membership of Malaysian Veterinary Council
Field of Expertise
Microbiology, vaccinology, molecular
biology, immunology, biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing (GMP) for
the industry, intellectual property rights and commercialization of
biotech products.
Director of
Investment, Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC)
Skills & Experiences
Research
Proven track record in research leadership
Had led his team to acquire and completed 6 major research projects with total funding of more than RM2.4 mill
Has led a new strategic research project with a total funding of more than RM52 mill.
The project is for production of vaccines and immunotherapeutic products, involves establishment of the first cGMP-certified biopharmaceutical pilot-plant facilities in Malaysia
Teaching Experience
Professor in Institute of Bioscience, Laboratory of Immunotherapeutic and Vaccines, UPM
Associate Professor, UPM
Lecturer, UPM
Tutor, UPM
Demonstrator / Research Assistant for Veterinary Microbiology, UPM
Student Supervision
Supervised 22 post-graduates
Main area of supervision includes immunology, disease diagnosis; DNA fingerprinting for identification of animal species, bacteria and viruses; DNA vaccine and general molecular biology
Publications
Has more than 200 publications to his name in reputable journals, proceedings, manuals, TV scripts, magazines, thesis, scientific and technical reports, gene sequences deposited to GENEBANK and books
Regular contributor for articles on current issues in biotechnology
Assisted Education TV program to develop scripts on related education science program
Collaboration, Consultancy & Resource Person
Dr. Azmi has conducted an extensive collaborative research with many research institutes, universities or organizations in Malaysia and abroad including:
CSIRO Australia
University of Western Australia
ACIAR (Australia)
Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Cuba)
Micro Biochip Center of Hanyang University (Korea)
Center for Molecular Immunology (Cuba)
University of Cambridge (UK)
National Cancer Foundation (Malaysia)
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Private sector
Awards
Dr. Azmi has won more than 30 prestigious
awards in recognition for his inventions / innovations:
Gold medal for
genetically modified vaccine with genetic markers (for diagnostic
purposes)
Gold medal for
research in chicken disease
Silver and bronze
medals for invention of broad-spectrum anti-cancer “DNA vaccine”
Silver medal for
patent pending molecular based diagnostic kit
