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DATUK PROFESOR TS. DR. ROHANA YUSOF
Virology

atuk Profesor Ts. Dr. Rohana Yusof atuk Professor Ts. Dr. Rohana Yusof was
dilahirkan pada 17 Februari 1960 di Kuala born on 17 February 1960 in Kuala Lumpur.
Lumpur. Beliau menerima pendidikan She received her early education at
Dawal di Sekolah Menengah Convent Bukit DConvent Bukit Nanas Secondary School
Nanas dan memiliki Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sains and holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in
(Kepujian) Biokimia daripada Lancaster University, Biochemistry from Lancaster University, UK, as
UK, serta Sijil Pengajaran Pascasiswazah. Beliau well as a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate. She
seterusnya memperoleh Ijazah Sarjana daripada later obtained a Master’s degree from Universiti
Universiti Malaya dan Ijazah Doktor Falsafah Malaya and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the
daripada University of Leeds, UK, dalam bidang University of Leeds, UK, in Biochemistry with a
biokimia dengan pengkhususan dalam biologi specialisation in molecular biology.
molekul.
Her academic excellence was given
Pencapaian akademik beliau diberi recognition with The High Commissioner’s Award
pengiktirafan dengan Anugerah Pesuruhjaya for Academic Excellence in London for her research
Tinggi untuk Kecemerlangan Akademik di London on Adenovirus during her PhD studies. Upon her
atas penyelidikan beliau mengenai Adenovirus return to Malaysia in 1993, she was appointed
semasa pengajian PhD. Sekembalinya ke Malaysia as a lecturer at Universiti Malaya. Among her
pada tahun 1993, beliau dilantik sebagai pensyarah international recognitions are an award from the
di Universiti Malaya. Antara pengiktirafan Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
antarabangsa yang diterimanya termasuk (1996) at Kinki University, Japan, a fellowship from
anugerah daripada Japanese Society for the the ASEAN Molecular Biology Organization (1997) at

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