MIRI: Curtin University Malaysia senior chemical engineering lecturer Dr Stephanie Chan Yen San has won the Venus International Women Awards ‘Young Woman in Engineering’ award from Venus International Foundation based in India. Dr Chan heads the Engineering First Year programme at Curtin Malaysia’s Engineering and Science Faculty. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in chemical-bioprocess engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and received her doctorate from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). She has conducted collaborative research with fellow researchers at USM, UTM, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sarawak Malaysia, International Medical University Malaysia, Swinburne University Sarawak, Hyogo University Osaka and Curtin University Australia. She is currently the leader for bio-nanotechnology research at Curtin Malaysia and heads the biomedical and pharmaceutical cluster at the faculty.

Source: The Star March 14, 2018 06:33 UTC