The Bioprocess Tech division offers a wide range of services (testing and consultancy) targeted at the Malaysian and international bioprocess industries based on the expertise of the experts available. Services available include:

• Consultation
  • DNA cloning, mutagenesis
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae expression system
  • Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans expression system
  • Bacterial expression system
  • Mutagenesis
  • Mammalian expression system
• Testing/Project
  • E. coli competent cells (DH5⍺, XL1-Blue, BL21, and BL21(DE))
  • LB agar
  • LB agar (containing antibiotic)
  • Utilisation of nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as surrogate organism for bioassays
  • Cell toxicity assay (MTT assay)
  • Microalgae cultivation (batch, fed batch and continuous)
  • Cell proliferation assay (CCK8 assay)
  • Initial Cell attachment for biomaterial
  • In vitro glucose consumption assays (mammalian)
  • In vitro alpha glucosidase assay
  • In vitro alpha amylase assay
  • In vitro anti-diabetes assay (cell-based)
  • Phytochemical screening of natural products
  • Anti-inflammatory assays (cell-based)
  • Antioxidant assays (enzymes and cell-based)
  • Anti-bacterial and microbial assays
  • Anti-cancer assays (cell-based)

Please get in touch with us to express your interest. We will direct you to the right expert that meets your needs.

Contact Person
Dr. Mohamad Hafizi b. Abu Bakar 
Programme Chairperson
Bioprocess Engineering Technology
School of Industrial Technology
11800 USM, Penang
+604-653 5213
mhafizi88@usm.my

The Environmental Tech division offers a wide range of services (testing and consultancy) targeted at the Malaysian and international industries based on the expertise of the experts available. Services available include:

• Consultation
  • Environmental forensic investigation
  • Renewable energy
  • Biodiesel production
  • Environmental auditing
  • ISO 14001
  • Municipal solid waste treatment
  • Ecosystem services
• Testing/Project
  • Indoor air quality assessment
  • Supercritical CO2 sterilization/extraction
  • Occupational Ergonomic
  • Life cycle assessment ISO 14040/44
  • Environmental impact assessment - air pollution control
  • Wastewater treatment plant design
  • Water/wastewater analysis
  • Microbiological analysis
  • Biodiesel analysis
  • Solid waste analysis

Please get in touch with us to express your interest. We will direct you to the right expert that meets your needs.

Contact Person
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yusri b. Yusup 
Programme Chairperson
Environmental Technology
School of Industrial Technology
11800 USM, Penang
+604-653 5201
yusriy@usm.my

The Bioresource Tech division offers a wide range of services (testing and consultancy) targeted at the Malaysian and international bioresource industries based on the expertise of the experts available. Services available include:

• Consultation
  • Concept map production
  • Literature study
  • Pulp and papermaking from biomass
• Testing/Project
  • Flexural test
  • Tensile test
  • Compression test
  • Impact test (Charpy & Izod)
  • Fibre analyser
  • Bursting test
  • Opacity and brightness test
  • Folding test
  • Tearing test
  • Melt flow index
  • Pulping digester
  • Refiner
  • Handsheet machine
  • Biomass chemical composition analysis
  • Pulp and papermaking from biomass
  • Surface hydrophobicity/oleophobicity (analysis)
  • Emulsion polymerization (analysis, synthesis)
  • Surface tensiometry (analysis)
  • Controlled radical polymerization (analysis, synthesis)
  • Termite test
  • Dimensional stability test
  • Extrusion 
  • Chemical stability test
  • Colour spectroscopic analysis

Please contact us to express your interest and we will direct you to the right expert that meets your needs.

Contact Person
Ts. Dr. Nurul Fazita bt. Mohammad Rawi 
Programme Chairperson
Bioresource Technology
School of Industrial Technology
11800 USM, Penang
+604-653 5218
fazita@usm.my

The Food Tech division offers a wide range of services (testing and consultancy) targeted at the Malaysian and international food industries based on the expertise of the experts available. Services available include:

• Consultation
  • Food regulations
  • Food labelling requirements
  • Food defence
  • Packaging
  • Nutrition
• Workshop & Training
  • Food regulations
  • Food labelling requirements
  • Food defence
• Testing/Project
  • Microbiological protection & shelf life
  • Foodborne pathogens & Spoilage organisms’ identification
  • Human clinical study
  • Product development and quality enhancement of plant-based products.
  • Rheological analysis of food
  • Textural analysis of food
  • Frying quality analysis

Please get in touch with us to express your interest. We will direct you to the right expert that meets your needs.

Contact Person
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uthumporn Utra @ Sapina Abdullah 
Programme Chairperson
Food Technology
School of Industrial Technology
11800 USM, Penang
+604-653 2220
sapina@usm.my