Prof Yuen Kah Hay obtained his B.Pharm. (1st class Hons) and M.Sc. from Universiti Sains Malaysia and Ph.D. from University of London. He has been lecturing at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia for 38 years. To date he has successfully supervised over 60 postgraduate students at the master’s and Ph.D levels, and published over 130 research papers in international journals and another 20 in regional and local journals. He has been a consultant to a local pharmaceutical company, Hovid Bhd since 1992, where he leads a team in drug formulation and product development. He is also currently heading a BE center in conducting bioequivalence studies for the pharmaceutical industry and also the lead investigator of several clinical studies investigating the neuroprotective effects of palm vitamin E tocotrienols.  He has retired from the university on 31st December 2016, but stayed on as honorary professor and has been appointed as executive director of Hovid Bhd since 2nd January 2017.