Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal is a professor of pediatric hematology, oncology and molecular biology at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is the Pro Vice Chancellor of the UKM’s Kuala Lumpur Campus. He was the founding director (2003–2017) and is now a senior principal research fellow of the UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI). He is the project leader for The Malaysian Cohort and the Cohort Biobank, the largest in Southeast Asia. He was the project director for the UKM Specialist Children’s Hospital (2010–2019). His research interests include cancers, other non-communicable diseases, and cohort studies. He has over 180 indexed publications. One of his latest projects is The Cancer Genome Atlas Malaysia. He is involved in two MRC UK–Malaysia research projects on diabetes and obesity. He is the chairman of the National Stem Cell Committee for Ethics in Research and Therapy, Ministry of Health (MOH), a committee member for the Thalassaemia Control Programme (MOH), and member of the National Clinical Trials Committee MOH. He is a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and heads a task force for a Precision Medicine Initiative.