KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian PhD student Umi Nabilah Ismail (pic) has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Medical Physicists Scholarship Award for her research in developing a biomarker that can assess treatment efficacy for beta thalassemia.
Beta thalassemia is one of the most common genetic disorders in Malaysia, with an estimated 4.5% of the Malaysian population being carriers. To date, there is no known cure for the disease.
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