Rate My Professor MNA Kamarudin

Muhamad Noor Alfarizal Kamarudin, known professionally as Dr. MNA Kamarudin, serves as Senior Lecturer and Director of Engagement & Partnerships at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry: Molecular Biology & Neuroimmunology from Universiti Malaya on 8 October 2016, building on a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry from the same university awarded on 15 October 2010, and an Associate Diploma in Music (Teaching) from the International Music Examinations Board on 31 January 2014. Following his doctorate, he undertook a postdoctoral researcher position on glioblastoma through a three-way collaboration between Universiti Malaya, Taibah University of Medina, and Lincoln College University. He joined the Brain Research Institute Monash Sunway (BRIMS) within the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences in October 2017.

Dr. Kamarudin's research specializes in non-coding RNAs in human gliomas using 2D and 3D models to investigate drug resistance and cell motility; mechanisms of chemosensitization by standard drugs in cancer cells; and the adjuvant potential of natural products in cancer and gliomas. His interests encompass mesenchymal transition in glioma cell motility and drug resistance, synergizing chemotherapeutic drugs, early glioma diagnosis, neuro-oncology, cancer biology, molecular biology and diseases mechanisms including cell-to-cell communication via micro- and nanotubes, nutraceuticals, molecular signal transduction, neuroimmunology, neuroprotection, natural products, colorectal cancer, signal transduction, cancer therapeutics, cancer immunology, and neuroinflammation modulation particularly involving cytokines and chemokines. He has earned accolades such as the Best Thesis Award and Amersham Biosciences Prize from University Malaya and the Malaysia Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2010; 1st Prize Oral Presenter at InPRAS Conference UM 2014; 1st Prize Poster Presenter at World Congress on Healthy Ageing; Best Poster Presentation at the 39th Annual Malaysian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference; Silver Medal for Poster Presentation at Biological Sciences Graduate Congress, National University of Singapore in 2014; and Top 10 Best Poster Award at AACRoC Malaysia 2025. Key publications include 'Revisiting ABC Transporters and Their Clinical Significance in Glioblastoma' (Phon et al., Pharmaceuticals, 2025), 'A Prognostic Neuromodulation-Related Gene Signature Identifies Immunomodulation and Tumour-Associated Hallmarks in Glioblastoma' (Chow et al., Biomedicines, 2025), 'Building AI readiness for health in Southeast Asia' (Chen et al., The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 2025), and 'Erythrocarpines I–N, new limonoids from the barks of Chisocheton erythrocarpus and their neuroprotective effects against hydrogen peroxide in NG108–15 cells' (Ngadni et al., Fitoterapia, 2024). As Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology (Ethnopharmacology section) and former Associate Editor, he actively reviews for journals including Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research and Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. He supervises PhD students, teaches biochemistry, physiology, and nutritional biochemistry, and holds memberships in the Malaysia Society of Neuroscience, Malaysian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and European Association for Cancer Research.