Prof. Dr Nor Hadiani Ismail is the Director of Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Products Discovery (AuRIns), a Centre of Excellence located in UiTM Puncak Alam Campus. With years of research experience in the natural products chemistry field, her research focuses on plant secondary metabolites and synthesis of their analogues. She is also the President for the Malaysian Natural Products Society (MNPS) and recognized as Top Research Scientist Malaysia by the Academy of Science Malaysia.

Dr Fatimah Salim is a research fellow at Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Products Discovery (AuRIns). Her research work covers the chemistry of natural products from plants and microorganism, which routinely require the use of various analytical separation and detection techniques including Circular Dichroism (CD). She is into computational chemistry in modelling molecular spectroscopic characteristics and binding interaction between molecules. She is also exploring natural antioxidants from Malaysian herbs and spices for frying oil.