Professor Dr. Shaharum Shamsuddin has been appointed as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Development Affairs & Alumni), Universiti Sains Malaysia on the 1st of Dec 2023. Before this he was the USM’s Health Campus Director, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan since 2022. He served the School of Health Sciences as the Deputy Dean from 2007 – 2014 and the Chairman of Biomedicine Programme from 2015 until 2017. In the middle of 2017, was appointed as the Coordinator for URICAS (USM-RIKEN Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Advance Sciences) and the person in charge of Disabled Cluster USM at the Health Campus where he inspired the establishment of Pusat Transformasi OKU (PTO) team at USM Health Campus under the financial support of Majlis Agama Islam & Adat Istiadat Melayu Kelantan (MAIK). In 2019 he tabled the paper work to the University for the establishment of Cyberdyne-HUSM ROBO Rehabilitation services – the 1st teaching Hospital in Malaysia that uses Artificial-Intelligence Cybernetics based Robotic treatment for patient rehabilitation. Prof. Shaharum is very active in research, he was was one of three (3) Malaysian Scientists sent to Nanobiotic SA, Paris, France for technology transfer programme in 2008. Prof. Shaharum has guided as well as guiding many postgraduate students. He has to his credit thirteen research grants (IRPA, E-Science Fund, FRGS, TRGS and PRGS) completed as the Principal Investigator. He is also a Senate member of USM and associate member of Malaysian Health Sciences Dean’s Council. Before joining USM in 2003, he was a Research Officer at the National Institute for Animal Biotechnology.

His fields of specialization are in molecular biology & nanomedicine with research interests oriented towards tumor gene regulation, molecular mechanism of disease, epigenetics of ageing and molecular characterization of the genomes for Influenza A and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Prof. Shaharum has been an external evaluator for the positions of Associate Professor/Professor and also for various local universities. In addition to this, he has served to be both as an internal & external examiner for postgraduate locally & internationally. In view of his expertise he is also the consultant for various local agencies (molecular & cellular biology), reviewer of many scientific journals and has many publications in peer reviewed journals at the local & international level.