Doctor of Philosophy -
Pusat Kanser Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
OVERVIEW
This programme includes research on various fields. The fields offered are as followed:-
Biomedicine
Integration between biology and medicine in wide research areas including molecular and cell biology, stem cell, genetic disease, immunology and immunoregulation, differentiation, preclinical and clinical research.
Research Thrust Areas
Biomedicine
Molecular and cellular biology
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Clinical Sciences
The programme covers various areas in medicine with relevance to disease development, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy and mechanism underlying disease and integration of fundamental science with clinical approaches.
Research Thrust Areas
Haematology
- Transfusion medicine
- Stem cell
- Gene therapy
- Haemato-oncology
- Blood cells disorders
- Molecular haematology
- Blood substitutes
- Transfusion transmitted disease
- Physiology of transfusion
- Management of transfusion services
- Blood cells antigens
- Thrombotic disorders
- Adverse effects of transfusion
Radiotherapy
- Oncology
- Radiotherapy
Ophthalmology
- Stem cell
- Tissue engineering
- Ophthalmology
- Visual sciences
Medicine
- Radiation/surgical oncology
- Medical oncology
Radiology
- Musculoskeletal radiology
- Oncologic radiology
- Health informatics
- Brain imaging
Paediatric
- Paediatrics
- Paediatric cardiology
- Cardiac intervention
Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Drug and alcohol
- Community and social
Internal Medicine
- Clinical trials in internal medicine
- Clinical evaluation of traditional/complementary medicine
- Clinical trial in Oncology
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Community Medicine
The scope of this programme includes epidemiology, clinical care, health management, public health, nutrition, primary health care and management.
Research Thrust Areas
Community Medicine
· Public health
· Public health (oral health)
· Community medicine
· Community medicine(oral health)
· Hospital administration management & training
· Biostatistics
· Epidemiology
· Health services
· Women’s health
· Ageing population
· Health informatics
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Dentistry
The programme relates to dental disease management, dental biomaterial, community dentistry, biomaterial, orthodontics and other fields in dentistry.
Research Thrust Areas
Oral Biology
· Oral biology
· Oral immunology
Biomaterial
· Biomaterials
· Nanotechnology
· Tissue engineering
· Stem cells
Orthodontics
· Orthodontics
· Craniofacial biology
· Biomaterial
· Paediatric dentistry
Restorative Dentistry
· Conservative dentistry
· Prosthetic dentistry
· Periodontology dentistry
Community Dentistry
· Health informatics
· Paediatric dentistry
Maxillofacial surgery
· Maxillofacial surgery
· Maxillofacial rehabilitation
· Craniofacial
Dental Implantology
· Implantology
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Human Genetics
The programme covers topics on functional analysis of disease-causing genes, polymorphisms of disease associated genes, medical genetics and genetics of transfusion and haemotological diseases.
Research Thrust Areas
Medical Genetics
- Cancer genomic
- Clinical genetics
- Gene manipulations
- Gene therapy
- Biomarkers
- Personalized medicine
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Health informatics
- Bioinformatics
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Medical Immunology
This programme relates immune system, transplantation, interrelationship between infectious agents and their hosts as well as immune-mediated diseases.
Research Thrust Areas
Immunology
· Tumour immunology
· Study of thymus and T cell development
· Autoimmunity
· Immunomodulations
· Infectious immunity
· Transplantation immunology
· Oncology
· Immunogenetics
· Paediatric immunology
· Immune-haematology
· Transfusion immunology
· Primary immunodeficiency
· Molecular immunology
· Immunology of infectious disease
· Clinical immunology
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Molecular Biology
The topics range from macromolecule structures, DNA, RNAs, molecular characterization, functions, bioinformatics, methodologies, disease and diagnosis.
Research Thrust Areas
Medical Genetics
- Cancer genomic
- Clinical genetics
- Gene manipulations
- Gene therapy
- Biomarkers
- Personalized medicine
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Health informatics
- Bioinformatics
Microbiology
- Molecular virology and oncology
- Omics technology
- Biomarkers
- Diagnostics
- Vaccinology
- Bacteriology
- Parasitology
- Mycology
- Emerging infectious disease
- Drug monitoring
- Disease control
- Molecular bioinformatics
Pathology
- Molecular pathology
- Histopathology
- Nephropathology
- Oral pathology
- Systemic pathology
- Chemical pathology
- Pathogenesis of disease
- Molecular biology
- Diagnostics/marker
- Carcinogenesis
Biomedicine
- Molecular and cellular biology
Immunology
- Molecular immunology
- Immunogenetics
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Neuroscience
The research scope relates to science of human nervous system.
Research Thrust Areas
Neuroscience
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Nuclear Medicine
The emphasis is on various aspects of diagnostic and treatment methods in Nuclear Medicine. It also involves physics, dosimetry, radiation biology, radiochemistry and pharmacy.
Research Thrust Areas
Nuclear Medicine
· Radiation oncology
· Radiotherapy
· Brain imaging
· Soft tissue imaging
· Heavy ion technology/therapy
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Nutrition
This programme deals with various aspects in medicine with nutritional status.
Research Thrust Areas
Nutrition
· Sports nutrition
· Community nutrition
· Oncology nutrition
· Clinical nutrition
· Nutrition for the ageing
· Nutraceuticals
· Functional foods
· Traditional & complementary nutrition
· Herbal nutrition
· Nutrition for lifestyle diseases
· Nutrition for special population
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Pathology
This programme emphasizes on cancer progression, treatments, drug resistance, mechanisms underlying the disease, genetic identification, signal transduction and molecular markers.
Research Thrust Areas
Pathology
· Molecular pathology
· Histopathology
· Nephropathology
· Oral pathology
· Systemic pathology
· Chemical pathology
· Pathogenesis of disease
· Molecular biology
· Diagnostics/marker
· Carcinogenesis
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The programme relates to drug research and development methods.
Research Thrust Areas
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
· Novel drug delivery system
· Nutraceutical
· Natural products
· Bioproducts
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Pharmaceutical Technology
Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Technology is Specific fields of research are drug delivery, nutraceutical, drug development from natural products and alternative medicine.
Research Thrust Areas
Pharmaceutical Technology
· Novel drug delivery system
· Nutraceutical
· Natural products
· Bioproducts
Traditional Medicine/Herbal Medicine
· Naturopathy
· Traditional & complementary medicine
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Pharmacology
This programme involves studies on new drug development, pharmacokinetics, drug action, drug delivery, biopharmaceutics and drugs from natural products.
Research Thrust Areas
Pharmacology
· Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
· Descriptive toxicology
· Mechanistic toxicology molecular
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Pharmacy
This involves drug development using recombinant technology and drug molecular mechanism.
Research Thrust Areas
Pharmacy
· Pharmaceutical biotechnology
· Molecular pharmacology
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
Psychology
The research areas are in education psychology with emphasis on guidance counselling and evaluation.
Research Thrust Areas
- Education psychology psychometry and counselling
- Education psychology
- Guidance counselling
- Psychometric and educational evaluation
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
Sport Science
The research sub-disciplines are related to sports and exercise, lifestyle science, physical activity and health, sports nutrition and sports psychology.
Research Thrust Areas
- Physiology
- Exercise
- Clinical
- Wellness
- Ageing
- Spiritual
- Habitual
- Holistic
- Lifestyle disease
- Exercise rehabilitation
- Special population
Expertise available in the following Institute:
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute
www.amdi.usm.my
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should possess one of the following:
- A Master's degree in research mode; or
- A Master’s degree in related area with CGPA 3.00/4; or
- A Master’s degree in related area with CGPA 2.50-2.99/4 with additional requirements; or
- Bachelor’s degree in related area with minimum CGPA 3.67/4 (fast-track to PhD)
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
(Applicable for International Applicants Only)
The minimum score for each programme can be vary from the below list, candidates are required to check for each programme requirements.
- A minimum score of 40 for TOEFL (Internet-based); or
- A minimum of Band 7.5 for TOEFL Essentials (Online); or
- A minimum of Band 5 for IELTS; or
- A minimum score of 47 for PTE; or
- A minimum score of 154 for Cambridge English (CAE/CPE); or
- A minimum score of 154 for Linguaskill Online; or
- A minimum of Band 3.5 for MUET
Exemption is given to candidate if:
English is the candidate’s mother tongue or National Language; or
Candidate graduated from an Institution of Higher Learning in which the medium of instruction at Bachelor and/or Master degree level is English (statement of proof required)
DURATION
- Full-time: Min 4 semesters / Max 10 semesters
- Part-time: Min 6 semesters / Max 15 semesters
FEES
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*Not inclusive 6% Sales and Service Tax (SST) imposed by Government of Malaysia
** Fees are subject to change
