Dr. Nur Syamimi Ariffin is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. She started her career in 2018 after obtaining her Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 2017. She obtained her Master’s degree in Pharmacology in 2012 from the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is an active member of Malaysian Association for Cancer Research (MACR), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and an early career researcher of European Association for Cancer Research (EACR). She is currently conducting research in breast cancer metastasis, deciphering the transcriptional networks involving RUNX1, in her quest to find therapeutic potential of this transcription factor and its regulated genes. She is also actively involved in teaching Pharmacy students.