Prof Madya Dr Faridah Moosdeen It is with great regret that we report the death on 30 January 2009 of Prof Madya Dr Faridah Moosdeen, one of the leading figures of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) over the past 20 years. Faridah Moosdeen was born in Malaya in 1949 and received her Bachelor and Master Degree in Science from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. In 1975 she went to Vietnam to study for the Diploma in Medical Microbiology at the Pasteur Institute in Saigon. She came to the UK in 1982 to study at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the London Hospital where she was awarded a PhD and passed the MRCPath examination. In collaboration with the late Professor John David Williams she carried out significant research, publishing a number of papers on bacterial resistance mechanisms. On her return from England, Faridah was appointed to an academic post in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Universiti Keban
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