Dr Richard Johari James received his Ph.D. in Physiology from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia in 2014, and is now actively engaged in academic and research work. He joined UiTM as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy in 2005. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Integrative Pharmacogenomics Institute (iPROMISE), UiTM, and also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM. His research topics mainly include neurophysiology, toxicology, metabolomics, and translational biomedical sciences.