Sunway News

Sunway University has for the first time entered into the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021 measuring universities’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has attained a global rank within the top 200 for SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Sunway University’s Professor Jeff Tan Kuan Onn of the Department of Biological Sciences and Professor Poh Chit Laa from the Centre for Virus and Vaccine Research, along with their research collaborators from Harvard Medical School’s Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (USA) as well as University of Tennessee Health Science Centre (USA) have completed a study that has demonstrated the efficacy of molecular gene therapy as a new strategy for cancer treatment.

AstraZeneca, a science-led biopharmaceutical company, has entered into a new partnership with Sunway University via its innovation arm, Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs), to establish the first Health Innovation Hub (HIH) in Malaysia.