Fazia Adyani Ahmad Fuad is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Sustainability, Faculty of Engineering. Fazia's academic path began with a BSc (Biochemistry), which was obtained from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2004. She then furthered her studies for a Masters degree at the same institution, specialising in Plant Biotechnology and successfully completed her studies in 2008.
She later pursued her doctoral degree (Structural Biochemistry) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was awarded her Ph.D in 2012 and served as a lecturer at Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Health Campus, University Science Malaysia, before joining IIUM in 2014. Fazia's Ph.D project focused on drug design and discovery analyses on specific protein targets, in collaboration with University Catholique de Louvain, Brussels and National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. Since then, she has published her work in a number of international conferences and ISI-indexed journals. Currently, Fazia is interested in investigating the potential of specific enzymes that are involved in various metabolic pathways as chemotherapeutic targets for tropical diseases, such as dengue and malaria. Her main interests include a combination of in silico drug design and biochemical analyses on specific protein targets, which allows further understanding of various protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions.

• Natural Science ~ Bioinformatics ~ Structural Bioinformatics ~ Structural Proteomics - Proteomics
• Natural Science ~ Biological Sciences ~ Biochemistry ~ Proteins - Structural Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Biotechnology ~ Biotechnology ~ Biopharmacy Biotechnology ~ Drug Discovery - Drug Design & Discovery
• Natural Science ~ Bioinformatics ~ Systems Biology ~ Other Systems Biology n.e.c. - Biology

• 2011 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Biochemical Society, UK
• 2015 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK
• 2018 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society Malaysia (MASBIC)
• 2019 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Senior Member), Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES), Hong Kong
• 2020 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Abu Hurairah Animal Society
• 2021 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Abu Hurairah Animal Society IIUM
• 2022 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Applied fo Membership), Malaysia Society for Engineering & Technology (MySET)
• 2022 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Graduate Technologist), Malaysia Board Of Technologists (MBOT)

BIOCHEMISTRY	2022/2023 2021/2022
BIOTECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING LAB III	2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016
CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING	2026/2027 2015/2016 2014/2015
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 3	2025/2026 2024/2025
FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1	2025/2026 2024/2025
FINAL YEAR PROJECT 2	2025/2026
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II	2024/2025 2018/2019
INTRODUCTORY MICROBIOLOGY	2022/2023
LIFE SCIENCES FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERIS	2026/2027 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING	2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016
MOLECULAR FARMING (BIOMOLECULAR)	2016/2017 2015/2016
PROJECT I	2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
SEMINAR	2015/2016 2014/2015
USRAH IN ACTION 1	2023/2024
USRAH IN ACTION 2	2023/2024

Anticancer Activity Of Ionic Liquid Graviola Fruit (Annona Muricata) Extract On Mcf-7 And Ht29 Cancer Cell Lines Using In Vitro And In Vivo Methods. Ph.D Completed 2020 Co-supervisor

Deciphering The Mechanism Of Chitin As A Potent Inhibitor Of Human Hexokinase 2 For Improved Anti-Dengue Theraputics. Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor

Exploring The Impact Of Plasmodium Falciparum Kelch 13 Protein Mutations On Artemisinin - Based Antimalarial Drug Interactions : A Computational And Protein Interaction Study. Master Completed 2024 Main Supervisor

Identification Of Potential Inhibitors Of Human Hexokinase Ii For The Development Of Anti-Dengue Therapeutics. Master Completed 2021 Main Supervisor

Virtual Screening And Enzymatic Inhibition Analysis Of Bacterially Expressed Lactate Dehydrogenase From Plasmodium Knowlesi For Antimalarial Drug Development. Master Completed 2021 Main Supervisor

Network-Based Drug Repurposing For Host Glycolytic Targets In Dengue Virus Infection. Master In Progress Main Supervisor

Exploring Chitin-Based Compounds As Inhibitors Of Bacterially-Expressed Human Hexokinase Isoform 2 As Potential Dengue Treatment . Master In Progress Main Supervisor

Structural Ensemble Screening Of Macrocycles For Physicochemical Profiling In Targeted Kinase Inhibition. Master In Progress Co-supervisor

Completed

2018 - 2023	Collagen-Like Protein from Selected Bacteria as Alternative For Non-Halal Collagen
2017 - 2019	Fractionation and partial purification of active compounds from agarwood branch extract responsible for the cytotoxic/anticancer activity
2016 - 2021	Interrogating Novel Compounds for Improved Anti-dengue Therapies via Inhibition of Host's Glycolytic Pathway
2015 - 2019	Identification of Novel Antimalarial Agents for the Treatment of Knowlesi Malaria via in silico Screening and Enzynmatic Inhibition Analysis

On-Going

2023 - Present	Deciphering the Mechanism of Chitin as a Potent Inhibitor of Human Hexokinase Isoform 2 for Improved Anti-Dengue Therapeutics
2022 - Present	Directed Evolution library construction of kinase enzyme for the mediation of phosphorothioate bond formation using Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning-assisted Fitness Analysis
2022 - Present	Elucidating the Inhibitory Effects of Chitin on Human Hexokinase Isoform 2 as a Lead Compound for Dengue Treatment
2021 - Present	Identification of potential anti-malarial compounds from natural products using virtual screening and in-vitro inhibition studies for the treatment of malaria
2020 - Present	Confirmation, Validation, and Characterization of Antimalarial Drug (Artemisinin) Resistant K13 Selected Genes on Plasmodium Falciparum in Malaysian Isolates
2020 - Present	Investigating the Potential Use of an LED-Photodiode Pair as a Flow Velocimetry Imaging Technique for Non-Invasive Measurement of Peritoneal Dialysis Fluid
2018 - Present	ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION OF SEWAGE SLUDGE AND FOOD WASTE FOR BIOGAS PRODUCTION AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION
2006 - Present	Bio-Process and Molecular Engineering Research Unit (BPMERU)

10 Dec, 2021	Top Researchers with the Highest Number of Joint Publications from 2019-2021 - International Islamic University Malaysia	University
30 Mar, 2021	Main Recipient of Best Journal Award for Science, Technology, and Medicine (International Indexed Journal), MAPIM-KPT Awards Ceremony 2019 - Ministry of Higher Education	National
21 Sep, 2015	The Travel Grant Award - Biochemical Society UK	International