Dr. Nurulfiza Mat Isa is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She obtained her first degree in Biotechnology (2004) and PhD in Molecular Biology (2008) from UPM with fully supported by the National Science Fellowship (NSF) from the Ministry of Science, Technology and lnnovation (MOSTI), Malaysia. In 2011, she was appointed as an Honorary Member of the Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour Department, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in ageing bioinformatics research. Dr. Nurulfiza Mat Isa was also appointed as Head of Laboratory at Laboratory of Vaccines and Animal Therapeutics, Institute of Bioscience, UPM from 2018 until present.