Shaikh, Mohmad Farooq

Associate Professor Farooq is an expert neuropharmacologist, interested in both drug discovery and understanding the disease mechanisms of brain disorders especially epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. His team has developed a zebrafish model to study the co-morbidities (secondary condition) of epilepsy. He is also involved multidisciplinary projects such as early detection and prevention of epileptic seizures using machine learning and biomedical engineering. He is contributing to the project which deals with tackling the stigma associated with epilepsy for improving the quality of life of individuals.

He is a recipient of Monash's PVC award for Excellence in Research (2020 and 2018) and Malaysian Society of Neuroscience (MSN)-best publication award in 2017. He is also recipient of Malaysian Society of Pharmacology & Physiology (MSPP) 2019 Best Young Researcher Awards. He is involved in PhD supervision and publishing papers in high impact journals. He is the recipient of IBRO-APRC Exchange Fellowship 2012.