FACULTY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Undergraduates
Biochemistry Programme
Have you ever wondered what causes diseases like cancer and diabetes? Are you interested in developing new therapeutic drugs? The field of Biochemistry provides the key to understanding disease and how disease can be treated. You will also be exposed to the fundamentals of life’s molecular structures and processes. Biochemistry is at the core of various fields of biology and is involved in a large number of impactful scientific discoveries in medicine and biotechnology.
Major courses
1st year
- undamentals of Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
- General Genetics
- Fundamental Microbiology
- Organic Chemistry I
- Physical Chemistry I
2nd year
- Biochemistry
- Gene Expression
- Recombinant DNA Technology I
- Recombinant DNA Technology II
- Microbial Genetics
- Practical Biochemistry I
- Advanced Biochemistry
- Computational Biology Molecular
- Statistical Analysis in Biology
3rd year
- Molecular Biology
- Biosignalling
- Scientific Communication
- Molecular Biology
- Research Project I
4th year
- Research Project II
- Industrial Training
Career Prospects
- Pharmacologist
- Biotechnologist
- Clinical Researcher
- Medicinal Chemist
- Forensic Scientist
- Technical Writer
- Lecturer
- Biochemical Science Officer
- Biochemical Research Officer
Core lecturers
Prof. Dr. Wan Kiew Lian
Genomics, Molecular parasitology (klwan@ukm.edu.my)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roohaida Othman
Plant biotechnology, Genomics, System biology (roohaida@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Izyanti Ibrahim
Enzymology, Protein biochemistry (izzy@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Shazilah Kamaruddin
Enzyme Biotechnology, Fungal Molecular Biology
(shazilah@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Babul Airianah Othman
Microbial and Plant Polysaccharide Biochemistry
(airianah@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Shahidan
Biological sensor, Biochemistry (mashraf@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Shevin Rizal Feroz
Protein biochemistry, Ligand-protein interactions
(shevin@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Mohd Rohaizad Md. Roduan
Cancer biology, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy
(rohaizad@ukm.edu.my)
Dr. Fariza Juliana Nordin
Cancer mechanistic study, cancer drug discovery
(farizajuliana@ukm.edu.my)
Entry requirements
General requirement:
- Complete 12 years of Primary and High School education; and
- Obtain High School (e.g. Higher Secondary Certificate, Senior Secondary School Graduation Certificate, Tawjihiyah, Ijazah Sekolah Menengah Atas, High School Diploma); and
- Meet minimum English requirement set by faculty; and
- Pass UKM interview (if required) ; and
- Meet faculty specific requirement;
Specific programme requirement:
