Dr Muhammad Farid Nazer bin Muhammad Faruqu
Dr. Farid completed his degree and Master’s in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge in 2014. He later obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from King’s College London (KCL) in 2019, during which he began specializing in extracellular vesicles (EVs), with a focus on their applications in drug delivery. His research focused on developing novel methods to radiolabel EVs to study their in vivo biodistribution using nuclear imaging, followed by exploring EV-mediated siRNA delivery for cancer therapy in vivo.
After completing his PhD, Dr. Farid continued as a postdoctoral researcher at KCL, where he conducted comparative EV biodistribution analyses using different imaging modalities. He also explored the use of EVs isolated from pluripotent and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for applications in regenerative medicine.
Dr. Farid returned to Malaysia in 2020 and joined Universiti Malaya as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine. He was later appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology in 2021. He is currently establishing his research niche in bioengineering extracellular vesicles (EVs) as nanobiologics for various medical applications. His current work began with developing bioengineered EVs as nanocarriers for CRISPR/Cas9 delivery and has since expanded into the development of bioengineered EVs as nanoscale neutralizing agents, multimodal vaccines for infectious diseases, and EV-based biomarkers for disease screening.
Dr. Farid has secured several national research grants, including the Toray Research Grant, MAKNA Cancer Research Award, FRGS, and most recently the RBS Medical Research Grant, in addition to internal Universiti Malaya funding. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Medicine’s Research Management Unit (RMU), where he serves on the internal grant committee responsible for coordinating and evaluating applications for university and faculty grants, monitoring the progress of awarded grants, and conducting grant proposal workshops for early-career researchers within the faculty.
