Professor Sandy Loh wins the WinSET Career Achievement Award
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) recognises the importance of gender equality and work life balance among all staff at all levels. It is important and necessary to provide an opportunity for our academics for their outstanding achievement in their career while managing their family and life. The WinSET Working Group invited female or male academic staff of UNMC from Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine or Mathematics (STEMM) area to nominate themselves for this award. The award required the candidate to possess the following skills:
• Demonstrate excellent leadership in the areas of STEMM or any other areas related to STEMM.
• Should have a good track of career progression and taking up of leadership role.
• Demonstrated high level contribution to the department/school, faculty and/or university in areas including teaching and administration.
• Has a good track of career progression and taking up of leadership role.
Several nominations were filed, in which Professor Sandy Loh Hwei San from the School of Biosciences was awarded with the WinSET Career Achievement Award. The award was presented to her on Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at the Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre (KLTC) during the Stronger Together event.
Professor Sandy Loh was awarded BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science and PhD in Virology and Molecular Biology from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). After her PhD graduation, she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Institute of Bioscience, UPM for a year. She joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) in July 2006 as an Assistant Professor and acted as convenor for a few modules in the molecular biology and biotechnology areas. She was appointed as the Course Manager of Foundation in Biosciences in January 2007 and assisted in the establishment of a few other courses in the School of Biosciences. Following her academic promotion to Associate Professor in January 2010, she was then appointed as the Director of Biotechnology Research Centre (BRC) in 2010 to lead various biotechnology research areas at UNMC. To date, she had received a few awards in recognition her research contributions such as Pfizer’s Prize, Bronze and Silver Medals from UPM, a new researcher award from Nottingham University, Makna Award from Malaysian National Cancer Council and International Invention and Innovation Exhibition (ITEX) Gold Medal. Her involvement in the health and safety (HS) administrative facet has been signified by establishing the UNMC Biosafety Committee in 2011, serving as the Faculty of Science HS Committee Chair in August 2012 as well as an employer representative on the UNMC HS Committee in December 2013. Besides, her dedication in lecturing has been valued by students in resulting her to have won the prestigious UNMC Staff Oscar Award 2014. She was promoted to Professor in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in April 2015.
Her current research interests include the application of molecular pharming approach in developing safer and more cost-effective plant-based vaccine candidates for controlling human and poultry viral diseases as well as plant-made biopharmaceutical proteins for treating cancers and for health promotion; investigations on medicinal plant metabolites and pure bioactives from tropical plant species aiming for new therapeutics discovery; combinatorial application of vitamin E isomers and nanomedicine as an alternative cancer treatment strategy.
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