University of Malaya Researchers’ Conference 2012
HIGH IMPACT RESEARCH (HIR)
UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
BIRTH OF THE HIR ERA
Background for Chancellory HIR
HIR in UM started in February 2010 with internal fund
Central HIR Committee chaired by Tan Sri VC
Developed strong system to manage UM HIR projects
In 2010 & 2011, 4 cycles a year
In 2012, reduced to 2 cycles a year because of MoHE
Fund (www.hir.um.edu.my)
Background for Chancellory HIR
Cost-effectiveness : RM60K per Tier One publication
Capped at RM500K per project
Duration for 2 years only
Emphasis on niche areas and strengths of UM researchers
International collaborations, including with Malaysian
scientists overseas and Academic Icons
Background of MoHE HIR
Cabinet decision to support at least one research
university to break into the Top 100 world ranked
universities by 2015 based on QS Ranking
In one quixotic move, Tan Sri VC accepted the
challenge (placing our necks on the chopping board!)
MOHE Fund started in July/August 2011
Total allocation – RM590 million for 5 years
Five faculties and one Special Chancellory Project
UM RANKING PERFORMANCE IN
QS (2004-2011)
2004
(THESQS)
2005
(THESQS)
2006
(THESQS)
2007
(THESQS)
2008
(THE-QS)
89
169
192
246
230
Erroneous data submission
2009
(THEQS)
2010
(QS)
2011
(QS)
180 207 167
PUBLICATIONS RECORD 1980 - 2010
Web of Science Citations for 5 Universities for the Period of
2006-2011 (as of 14th Feb 2011)
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
UM
Mahidol
Chula
NUS
NTU
WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING
1)
2)
3)
4)
Research Output – 40%
Quality of Faculty – 40%
Quality of Education – 10%
Size of Institution – 10%
2025
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
Academic Peer Review – 40%
Research Excellence – 20%
Teaching Excellence – 20%
Employer Survey – 10%
International Students – 5%
International Faculty – 5%
2020
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
Academic Peer Review – 40%
Citations per faculty – 20%
Student faculty ratio – 20%
Employer/Recruiter review – 10%
International Students – 5%
International Faculty – 5%
2015
SHANGHAI JIAO TUNG
UNIVERSITY RANKING (SJTU)
THE World
University Ranking (QS)
QS World
University Ranking (QS)
FUNDING OF CYCLE 3 HIR-MOHE
No
Proposed & Approved
by MOHE
No. of
RM
projects
PTj
Allocation for
Cycle 1
No. of
RM
projects
Allocation for
Cycle 2
No. of
RM
projects
Amount Balanced
for Cycle 3 (RM)
1
MEDICINE
129,697,000
20
72,919,330
17
18,677,800
5
38,099,870
2
ENGINEERING
200,000,000
62
52,837,469
23
65,108,120
27
82,054,411
3
SCIENCE
79,904,130
13
60,014,503
13
0
0
19,889,627
4
DENTAL
28,287,330
22
13,194,753
8
15,092,351
13
226
5
COMPUTER SCIENCE
27,268,000
13
8
3,201,200
6
14,940,310
6
CHANCELLORY
125,000,000
10
9
6,289,250
1
14,368,802
78
108,368,721
52
165,023,729
Balanced Revised 68% :
Secretariat
590,156,460
Total :
140
9,126,490
104,341,948
4,329,517
316,764,010
CRITERIA FOR MOHE FUNDING
Emphasis is on Fundamental Research
Quality projects in niche priority areas
Internationalism and partnership with ivy-league
universities
Publication in ISI/WoS Tier 1 high impact journals
in respective disciplines
PIs must have good track record of Tier 1
publications, not meant for “rookies”
Cost-effectiveness at RM100K/Tier 1 paper
Other targets include manpower development,
patents
STRATEGIES
Stringent internal and external review process
Tough but transparent monitoring and audit systems
Regular progress reports and oral presentations
Dedicated HIR Secretariat to expedite process of
purchases, employment of RA, etc.
Flagship projects which can attract Bright Sparks
Investment in high-end equipment (RM100 million)
for central facility labs
PECAHAN PEROLEHAN PERALATAN
HIR - CANSELERI
No
PTj
6. CHANCELLORY
No.
Major Equipments
1.
LC/MS
2.
3.
4.
Year 2012 (RM)
Year 2013 (RM) 2012+2013(RM)
36,806,500
800,000
37,606,500
Amount (RM)
No.
Major Equipments
Amount (RM)
800,000.00
22.
Scopes and power meters
Nanodrop spectrophotometer
Ultracentrifuge
Genome sequencer FLX instrument
250,000.00
190,000.00
1,600,000.00
23.
Laser sources
35,000.00
24.
Optical benches
50,000.00
5.
25.
Phenotype microarray
1,500,000.00
Photon camera
2,000,000.00
6.
Liquid chromatography/Mass spectrometry
C/MS/MS protein profiling
1,500,000.00
26.
600 MHz MRI/NMR
2,500,000.00
27.
Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) system
2,000,000.00
400,000.00
360,000.00
28.
Microarray with scanner, nano-printer,
software and robotics arm
2,500,000.00
30,000.00
3,500,000.00
100,000.00
1,800,000.00
100,000.00
616,500.00
2,000,000.00
200,000.00
320,000.00
100,000.00
150,000.00
230,000.00
200,000.00
29.
Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer
(BRETS)
2,000,000.00
30.
3730x1 DNA Analyser for high throughput
800,000.00
31.
CHEF Mapper Pulse field gel electrophoresis
300,000.00
32.
Autoanalyser nutrients (6 nutrients)
250,000.00
33.
CHN Elenmental analyser
250,000.00
34.
Amaxa nucleofactor
400,000.00
35.
Sequenome
3,358,000.00
36.
Single-cell laser capture microdisection
1,500,000.00
37.
Illumina iSCAN
1,500,000.00
38.
UPLC
7.
8.
3730x1 DNA Analyzer
COBAS Taqman 48 Analyzer
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Carbon dioxide incubator
Atomic force microscopy
High resolution spectrometer and detecter
X-ray Difractometer
Kugelrohr Distillation device
Basic lab equipment and freezers
Next generation sequencer
384 well PCR machine
Real-time PCR
Liquid handler
Freezers -20 & -80
Computer servers
Cleanroom wet bench and facilities
100,000.00
700,000.00
EQUIPMENT IN PLACE
GC MIDI
Cary 60
GCMS
HIGH IMPACT RESEARCH (HIR)
ADVISORY COUNCIL
UM Nobel Fellow Dr. Barry Marshall
UM Nobel Fellow Dr. Ryoji Noyori
UM Nobel Fellow Dr. David Baltimore
UM Distinguished Fellow Dr. Rita Colwell
UM HIR BUILDING
UM RYOJI NOYORI
Chemistry/Materials Science
UM COLWELL CENTRE
Systems Biology/Bioinformatics
UM MARSHALL CENTRE
Helicobacter/Tropical Diseases
Ryoji Noyori
Rita Colwell
HIR RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
UM BALTIMORE CENTRE
Epigenetics
UM Publications Indexed in Web of Science 2008th
2012 As of 17 April 2012
Year Published
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012 #
No. of Articles indexed No. of Tier 1
(excluded journals
Article
banned by MOHE)
594
1074
1481
1955
414
102
174
279
430
--
%
17.17%
16.20%
18.84%
21.99%
# 2012 publications is based on JCR2011; and it will only be released in July 2012
Source : UM Library
UM Publications in the following
journals (2008-2012)
th
as of 17 April 2012
Impact Factor
2008
(JCR2010)
Nature
36.104
0
Science
31.377
1
Lancet
33.633
0
New England Journal of
53.486
0
Medicine
Cell
32.406
0
Plos Medicine
15.617
0
Proceedings of the
9.771
0
National Academy of
Sciences of the United
States of America
(PNAS)
Total
1
Journal / Year
2009
2010
2011
2012
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
1
Source : UM Library
TARGETING HIGH IMPACT PUBLICATIONS
2012
2013
2014
2015
Total
Nature
1
2
4
5
12
Science
1
1
3
0
5
Lancet
0
0
0
1
1
PNAS
0
2
3
3
8
PLoS
0
2
3
12
19
I.F. = 33.633
I.F. = 36.104
I.F. = 53.486
An Impossible Dream?
I.F. = 31.377
IT IS IN DREAMS THAT WE BEGIN TO FIND REALITY
S. K. LAM