Dr. Rozana Othman

Rozana Othman received her B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry in 1995, and Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Universiti Malaya. She joined the Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 1999 as a lecturer. She became a Senior Lecturer in 2007 and Associate Professor in 2016. She achieved the top five Merck Young Scientist Award in 2009, and was also awarded with the Bioinno Award in 2010 by Biotech Corp, Malaysia, The Jenesys Programme by The Japan Foundation in 2010, and the Asian Core Program Lectureship Award in 2014. Currently, Rozana holds the position of Deputy Dean of Research, Value Creation and Enterprise at the Faculty of Pharmacy, UM. She is also the Deputy Head for the Centre of Natural Products Research and Drug Discovery (CENAR), a founding member of the Drug Design and Development Research Group (DDDRG) Universiti Malaya, an associate member of the Malaysian Institute of Chemistry, and a member of the Malaysian Natural Products Society. Her research interests revolve around the areas of Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry, and Computational Chemistry. To date, she has supervised more than 16 Ph.D. and 8 Masters by research students.