Dr Nadiah Sulaiman is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (CTERM), Faculty of Medicine UKM. She is currently CTERM Head of Academic Frontiers, overseeing and coordinating postgraduate students and courses offered in CTERM. Nadiah obtained her bachelor of science in industrial biology from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She then worked at the National Heart Institute (Institut Jantung Negara, IJN) as a clinical research assistant for a year, where she saw the impact of cardiovascular disease on society and country, thus sparks her interest in cardiovascular research. She pursued her master’s in medical science (physiology) at the Faculty of Medicine, UKM, in research mode, working on modulating stem cell differentiation towards cardiomyocyte lineage, when granted study leave while employed as a tutor at the Faculty of Science, UTM. Nadiah continues her doctoral degree at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK, under the supervision of Prof Raimondo Ascione, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Bristol Heart Institute. Her PhD research work on decellularized veins as a scaffold for in situ vascular tissue engineering was published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering. She successfully secured several internal and national grants, including an international collaboration grant, the 2019 Newton-Ungku Omar Fund, in collaboration with Prof Sarah George, University of Bristol.