Professor Dr Rusliza Binti Basir is Professor of Pharmacology at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She holds a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology from the University of Liverpool (1994) and a PhD in Immunopharmacology from the University of Manchester (1998). Across 27 years in academia, she served at Universiti Sains Malaysia from 1998 to 2007 before joining UPM, where she became Professor in 2022. Her scholarship focuses on malaria immunology, pathogenesis and immunotherapeutics. She has authored 109 journal publications and has presented her work in numerous conferences and seminar at national and international levels. She is a life member and former Vice-President and Honorary Secretary of the Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology, and a member of the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. Her honours include UPM Excellence Service Awards, ITEX gold medals (2013 and 2014), the iENA silver medal, ICOPA poster prize and Keystone Symposia Global Health Travel Award.