For four decades, Universiti Teknologi Mara’s (UiTM) Assoc Prof Datuk Dr Vellayan Subramaniam, 69, has tirelessly conducted countless research on parasitology and tropical medicine in South-East Asia.
He has studied tick infestation on lions, Japanese encephalitis, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and DNA sequencing and microbial diversity in Malaysian wildlife.
