Hafiz Afiff Mohd Chung Choon Ted entered the 
Bachelor in Bioinformatics (BBI)programme at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS) with A-Level Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics. The academic achiever used to be your typical studious type: sailed through school, head buried in books. Then he arrived at MSU and discovered a whole new world beyond the printed word. 

The member of the MSU Student Representative Council enjoys helping fellow MSUrians settle into life at university. Inspired by the good work of many others, Hafiz is passionate about becoming an agent of change and he keeps fit so he can be a useful citizen of the world. 

Why bioinformatics?
I see exciting prospects with bioinformatics. With new discoveries, I think it’ll be the future of medical science. I also want to contribute to new knowledge. I’m doing research in hepatitis, studying the genetic link. I lost my dad to hepatitis. I hope any contribution I make adds up to others’ so one day we can cure hepatitis. 

Why MSU? 
I’d checked out the very few schools that offer this programme but none gave me the good vibes I got from MSU. When I saw the MSU campus environment, I felt this was the place to go to. At the other schools the students were just moving around, going to classes, but at MSU the campus was alive with students in many activities. I wanted to experience that liveliness too. I checked out the BBI programme, found it MQA-certified, so here I am. 

What do you like about bioinformatics at MSU?
It diversifies my career options as I’m grounded in both the biology side and the IT side of the field. 

What do you like about the MSU campus?
There are events, entrepreneurship activities, people from industry visiting, talking to us, giving seminars; there’s so much active learning to be gained from all that, self-learning but guided, which is so much more enjoyable than just sitting in a class passively receiving information. 

What is your advice to those still considering MSU?
University should prepare you with slices of the real life before you go out into the world and be an industry player yourself. You can’t be learning from books all the time, so here’s a platform to build your soft skills, learn how to manage your time, work with people, and be a leader; a place that develops you as a person into a complete being. So do decide on a yes and come to MSU. 

 

 

 

 





Hafiz Afiff Mohd Chung Choon Ted entered the 
Bachelor in Bioinformatics (BBI)programme at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS) with A-Level Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics. The academic achiever used to be your typical studious type: sailed through school, head buried in books. Then he arrived at MSU and discovered a whole new world beyond the printed word. 

The member of the MSU Student Representative Council enjoys helping fellow MSUrians settle into life at university. Inspired by the good work of many others, Hafiz is passionate about becoming an agent of change and he keeps fit so he can be a useful citizen of the world. 

Why bioinformatics?
I see exciting prospects with bioinformatics. With new discoveries, I think it’ll be the future of medical science. I also want to contribute to new knowledge. I’m doing research in hepatitis, studying the genetic link. I lost my dad to hepatitis. I hope any contribution I make adds up to others’ so one day we can cure hepatitis. 

Why MSU? 
I’d checked out the very few schools that offer this programme but none gave me the good vibes I got from MSU. When I saw the MSU campus environment, I felt this was the place to go to. At the other schools the students were just moving around, going to classes, but at MSU the campus was alive with students in many activities. I wanted to experience that liveliness too. I checked out the BBI programme, found it MQA-certified, so here I am. 

What do you like about bioinformatics at MSU?
It diversifies my career options as I’m grounded in both the biology side and the IT side of the field. 

What do you like about the MSU campus?
There are events, entrepreneurship activities, people from industry visiting, talking to us, giving seminars; there’s so much active learning to be gained from all that, self-learning but guided, which is so much more enjoyable than just sitting in a class passively receiving information. 

What is your advice to those still considering MSU?
University should prepare you with slices of the real life before you go out into the world and be an industry player yourself. You can’t be learning from books all the time, so here’s a platform to build your soft skills, learn how to manage your time, work with people, and be a leader; a place that develops you as a person into a complete being. So do decide on a yes and come to MSU.