Category: Awards

We are thrilled to announce that the Center of Healthcare Science and Technology (CHST) has once again secured the prestigious Best UTAR Research Centre Excellence Award for the remarkable year of 2022. This remarkable achievement marks the third time that CHST has been honored with this distinction, previously winning in 2014 and 2018. In...

Goh Xue Xin, a CHST postgraduate student, won the Early Career Award at the 2023 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) held in Toronto, Canada, from 11th to 15th May 2023. As part of the award, she received a travel stipend and had her registration fee waived. As an Early Career Awardee,...

CHST postgraduate student, Goh Xue Xin, won the 2022 Science and Technology Research Grant, with a research grant worth RM20,000 with the title, “The in vitro inflammatory gene expression effect of the schizophrenia-associated gut and oral bacteria species on SH-SY5Y cell line”. Goh’s research study aimed to assess Schizophrenia patients’ in vitro inflammatory gene...

CHST member- Professor Dr Humaira Nisar won the Best Paper Award in 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Smart Technology, held on 23 and 24 September 2022 with her paper, entitled “Channel Selection and Classification of Electroencephalography based Motor Imagery Signals using Machine Learning”....

Department of Mechatronics and BioMedical Engineering Assoc Prof Ir Ts Dr Hum Yan Chai and his team members from Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science (LKC FES) have successfully secured an international grant worth USD13,682 for their research project titled “Bridging the gap between engineering students and non-engineering audience by instilling data...

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Article: https://news.utar.edu.my/awards/2022/Jan/28/02/02.html...

The paper titled “Association between Physical Performance and Autonomic Nervous System in Elderly Fallers” presented by Nur Husna Shahimi, Choon-Hian Goh, Maw Pin Tan and Einly Lim was awarded the Best Paper in the 1st National Biomedical Engineering Conference (NBEC 2021). Many congratulations to Dr Goh Choon-Hian!...

CHST postgraduate appears in the China Press Newspapers for winning the Young Investigator’s Award under the non-clinical category. For more details, please refer to this link: https://www.chinapress.com.my/?p=2699352...

A CHST postgraduate student, Ms Foo Lee Sze, won the Young Investigator Award under the non-clinical category in the virtual Malaysia Stroke Conference 2021 (MSC 2021) with her publication titled, “Study of Common Quantification methods of Amide Proton Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Ischemic Stroke Detection”. Many congratulations to Ms Foo and her supervisors,...