According to the World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed cases of Covid-19 have exceeded half a million and fatalities are approaching thirty thousand worldwide. With the stakes high and pressure mounting as the pandemic intensifies, teams of researchers at Management and Science University (MSU) join in on the global frantic race to flatline the Covid-19 curve.

 

Continuous education

 

Before coronavirus came onto the scene, the University had already identified twenty-five key research areas that possibly bring the highest impact to society. As with any other challenges, researchers across MSU’s three faculties, four schools, and five centres of excellence now address Covid-19 through the perspectives of community-centred applied science and technology.

 

 

Contemporary Societal Challenges are one among the twenty-five MSU key research areas. Coming into front and centre facing the Covid-19 fight are MSU researchers across Medical and Applied Health Sciences, Pharmaceutical Design, and Traditional and Complementary Medicine. Their collaborative investigations collectively include conditions for infection and diseases stemming from Covid-19 among the aging, effective natural products in preventing Covid-19, the level of Covid-19 knowledge in MBBS students, perception of lecturers and medical students towards online learning during lockdown, and the psychosocial impact of Covid-19 to healthcare workers in Malaysia.

 

 

MSU Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Technology (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

MSU Bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hons)

 

With Social Media and New Media Technology making up two other equally important key research areas, MSU researchers are also constantly looking into the role of social media as well as innovative online teaching and learning strategies during a lockdown.

 

MSU Master in Information Technology

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (Information and Communication Technology)

 

While MSU’s School of Education and Social Sciences (SESS) carries out research into Covid-19 influence on education and Malaysia’s public health sectors, the University’s Early Childhood Education LiveLab MSUKids continues providing educational modules online to parents and their below-5-years-of-age children attending the campus nursery.

 

MSU Master in Early Childhood Education

MSU Master in Educational Management and Leadership

 

Findings from all the University’s initiatives for continuous education supporting learning and awareness regarding Covid-19 are made available online via webinars hosted by MSU’s Continuing and Extended Education Centre (CEdEC).

 

Education for all: Anatomy for the army

 

 

Community care

In line with MSU’s University Industry Advisory Panel (UIAP) decision to complement Covid-19 research, final-year students on the Bachelor in Finance (Hons) programme at the Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies (FBMP) are investigating how the pandemic is likely to change business models, influence investment decisions, and transform the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The knowledge gained is expected to prepare society better in embracing the new normal.

 

A rising star in Islamic Finance

 

Meeting a nationwide urgent need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA). Sewing up suits cut by volunteers across the MSU academic as well as support staff register, SHCA delivered new supplies to hospitals in and around Shah Alam where the MSU main campus is.

 

 

Producing hand sanitizer for use at the adjacent MSU Medical Centre (MSUMC) Private Specialist Hospital in Shah Alam and the MSU campus surrounding communities are the Science Lab and the School of Pharmacy (SPH).

 

 

MSU formulates own sanitizer

 

Caring for the welfare of the vulnerable during the nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the Government of Malaysia is Yayasan MSU, also known as the MSU Foundation. Rolling out square meals to those constrained by the MCO, the Meals on Me (MoM) project by MSU Foundation is helping MSUrians meet their daily nutritional need to stay healthy.

 

 

MoM for MSUrians during Covid-19 MCO

 

 

Inter-disciplinary strength

 

Responding with a collaboration targeting IOT-based assistance into Covid-19 testing are researchers at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE). Harnessing an award-winning multiplex software solution from MSU’s Centre of Cyber Security and Big Data – an MSU Centre of Excellence whose work led to a gold medal at the Malaysia Technology Expo 2020 for the FISE project involving imaging identification in real-time surveillance applications – the FISE team is working with researchers from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS) and the School of Pharmacy (SPH) to develop prototypes of a smart helmet and a smart drone.

 

Meanwhile, MSU’s Diagnostics and Research Lab (DXL) ensures practical translation of inter-professional knowledge across the University’s Medical and Health Sciences Cluster, which comprises the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS), the International Medical School (IMS), and the School of Pharmacy (SPH). Funded by the Ministry of Education grants for Fundamental Research and Applied Science Industries, the lab provides an experimental playground to research experts and students alike. Drawing its strength from capabilities in medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, bioinformatics, pharmacokinetics, oncology, microbiology, molecular biology, tissue culture, public health as well as occupational safety and health, such a research ecosystem can only enhance teaching and learning at MSU.

 

 

MSU Bachelor in Nutrition (Hons)

MSU Bachelor in Bioinformatics (Hons)

MSU Master in Public Health

MSU Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health

 

 

Hand in glove with the authorities

 

Teams of medical and health sciences researchers at the DXL are working together with industry partners to ensure safe, compliant procedures for Covid-19 testing. Their use of the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rT-PCR) technique, compatible with WHO standards and protocols, is helping the Ministry of Health Malaysia address a bottleneck in testing suspected Covid-19 cases nationwide.

 

 

MSU listed among nation’s Covid-19 testing centres

 

The rT-PCR  testing technique has been utilized by MSUMC Private Specialist Hospital to make safe and convenient private testing available to the public. Provided with social distancing factored and staying true to MSUMC’s Caring, Healing, Educating tagline is the MSUMC Drive-Thru Covid-19 Testing, which ensures that everyone receives a fair and safe chance at getting tested without fear of being exposed to the deadly coronavirus.

 

 

MSUMC launches Drive-Thru Covid-19 private testing for the public

 

A shared purpose of the multi-faceted effort by Management and Science University (MSU) is to maximize the number of people who can benefit from what is being learned and quickly building on it. The unprecedented amount of openness and collaboration created is slowly yet surely mitigating the gravity of the Covid-19 situation as we head for the flat line.

 

 



According to the World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed cases of Covid-19 have exceeded half a million and fatalities are approaching thirty thousand worldwide. With the stakes high and pressure mounting as the pandemic intensifies, teams of researchers at Management and Science University (MSU) join in on the global frantic race to flatline the Covid-19 curve.

 

Continuous education

 

Before coronavirus came onto the scene, the University had already identified twenty-five key research areas that possibly bring the highest impact to society. As with any other challenges, researchers across MSU’s three faculties, four schools, and five centres of excellence now address Covid-19 through the perspectives of community-centred applied science and technology.

 

 

Contemporary Societal Challenges are one among the twenty-five MSU key research areas. Coming into front and centre facing the Covid-19 fight are MSU researchers across Medical and Applied Health Sciences, Pharmaceutical Design, and Traditional and Complementary Medicine. Their collaborative investigations collectively include conditions for infection and diseases stemming from Covid-19 among the aging, effective natural products in preventing Covid-19, the level of Covid-19 knowledge in MBBS students, perception of lecturers and medical students towards online learning during lockdown, and the psychosocial impact of Covid-19 to healthcare workers in Malaysia.

 

 

MSU Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Technology (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

MSU Bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hons)

 

With Social Media and New Media Technology making up two other equally important key research areas, MSU researchers are also constantly looking into the role of social media as well as innovative online teaching and learning strategies during a lockdown.

 

MSU Master in Information Technology

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (Information and Communication Technology)

 

While MSU’s School of Education and Social Sciences (SESS) carries out research into Covid-19 influence on education and Malaysia’s public health sectors, the University’s Early Childhood Education LiveLab MSUKids continues providing educational modules online to parents and their below-5-years-of-age children attending the campus nursery.

 

MSU Master in Early Childhood Education

MSU Master in Educational Management and Leadership

 

Findings from all the University’s initiatives for continuous education supporting learning and awareness regarding Covid-19 are made available online via webinars hosted by MSU’s Continuing and Extended Education Centre (CEdEC).

 

Education for all: Anatomy for the army

 

 

Community care

In line with MSU’s University Industry Advisory Panel (UIAP) decision to complement Covid-19 research, final-year students on the Bachelor in Finance (Hons) programme at the Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies (FBMP) are investigating how the pandemic is likely to change business models, influence investment decisions, and transform the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The knowledge gained is expected to prepare society better in embracing the new normal.

 

A rising star in Islamic Finance

 

Meeting a nationwide urgent need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA). Sewing up suits cut by volunteers across the MSU academic as well as support staff register, SHCA delivered new supplies to hospitals in and around Shah Alam where the MSU main campus is.

 

 

Producing hand sanitizer for use at the adjacent MSU Medical Centre (MSUMC) Private Specialist Hospital in Shah Alam and the MSU campus surrounding communities are the Science Lab and the School of Pharmacy (SPH).

 

 

MSU formulates own sanitizer

 

Caring for the welfare of the vulnerable during the nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the Government of Malaysia is Yayasan MSU, also known as the MSU Foundation. Rolling out square meals to those constrained by the MCO, the Meals on Me (MoM) project by MSU Foundation is helping MSUrians meet their daily nutritional need to stay healthy.

 

 

MoM for MSUrians during Covid-19 MCO

 

 

Inter-disciplinary strength

 

Responding with a collaboration targeting IOT-based assistance into Covid-19 testing are researchers at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE). Harnessing an award-winning multiplex software solution from MSU’s Centre of Cyber Security and Big Data – an MSU Centre of Excellence whose work led to a gold medal at the Malaysia Technology Expo 2020 for the FISE project involving imaging identification in real-time surveillance applications – the FISE team is working with researchers from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS) and the School of Pharmacy (SPH) to develop prototypes of a smart helmet and a smart drone.

 

Meanwhile, MSU’s Diagnostics and Research Lab (DXL) ensures practical translation of inter-professional knowledge across the University’s Medical and Health Sciences Cluster, which comprises the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS), the International Medical School (IMS), and the School of Pharmacy (SPH). Funded by the Ministry of Education grants for Fundamental Research and Applied Science Industries, the lab provides an experimental playground to research experts and students alike. Drawing its strength from capabilities in medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, bioinformatics, pharmacokinetics, oncology, microbiology, molecular biology, tissue culture, public health as well as occupational safety and health, such a research ecosystem can only enhance teaching and learning at MSU.

 

 

MSU Bachelor in Nutrition (Hons)

MSU Bachelor in Bioinformatics (Hons)

MSU Master in Public Health

MSU Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health

 

 

Hand in glove with the authorities

 

Teams of medical and health sciences researchers at the DXL are working together with industry partners to ensure safe, compliant procedures for Covid-19 testing. Their use of the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rT-PCR) technique, compatible with WHO standards and protocols, is helping the Ministry of Health Malaysia address a bottleneck in testing suspected Covid-19 cases nationwide.

 

 

MSU listed among nation’s Covid-19 testing centres

 

The rT-PCR  testing technique has been utilized by MSUMC Private Specialist Hospital to make safe and convenient private testing available to the public. Provided with social distancing factored and staying true to MSUMC’s Caring, Healing, Educating tagline is the MSUMC Drive-Thru Covid-19 Testing, which ensures that everyone receives a fair and safe chance at getting tested without fear of being exposed to the deadly coronavirus.

 

 

MSUMC launches Drive-Thru Covid-19 private testing for the public

 

A shared purpose of the multi-faceted effort by Management and Science University (MSU) is to maximize the number of people who can benefit from what is being learned and quickly building on it. The unprecedented amount of openness and collaboration created is slowly yet surely mitigating the gravity of the Covid-19 situation as we head for the flat line.