Reem Abou Assi is a fully registered pharmacist and academic staff member at the College of Pharmacy, Al-Kitab University. She is a PhD fellow at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USM with a tracked record publication that won the prestigious “Hadiah Sanjungan” Publication Excellency Award, and Division of Research and Innovation publication fund (USM), several times. She won the PICTL 2020 Golden medal from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her work focuses on enhancing drugs/herbs' physicochemical properties through different approaches and for different routes of administration. She goes beyond the laboratories by tackling challenges and developing tools for sustainable education in STEM including pharmaceutical sciences.