Research culture

21st century explorers

Our researchers are explorers, encouraged to solve urgent problems in new ways and work in multidisciplinary teams to tackle big problems from all angles.

You can see our culture at work in the efforts of our arts and medicine schools, who are involved in the international SEACO project, a community-based ‘health laboratory’ with public health, social and environmental science implications.

Global research, local impact

At Monash Sunway, we’re committed to research that benefits the communities we engage with and serve. While our focus and practice is international, we produce research that improves our region's quality of life and competitiveness.

Research priorities

Serving communities

Our priorities are set by the needs of Malaysians, our region’s people and the world. They’re also set by our areas of expertise to give our research real impact.

That’s why we’re leaders in tropical medicine, genomics, green electronics, social transformation and halal ecosystems, to name just some of our strengths.

The Monash Halal Ecosystem

Our team of business, science, medicine, IT and engineering researchers are working on the Monash Halal Ecosystem Model to deliver products and services – everything from food to banking – to two-billion plus Muslims.

Industry and government

We’re here for the long haul

We're committed to long-term industry and government partnerships to achieve long-term community benefits.

With Malaysian and Indian government help, our MyMAP Accelerator project is getting herbal plants of medicinal value to markets faster. And our green technology team is working with industry to improve heat-pump, air-conditioner and solar-power efficiency.

Top brains at BRIMS  

The government-supported Brain Research Institute at Monash Sunway is headed by the world’s top comparative neuroscientist. No wonder it’s become the region’s top centre for brain research into reproductive ageing and related neuropsychiatric disorders.

Research degrees

Make your studies count

Want to study under the world’s top comparative neuroscientist at BRIMS, help marginalised communities or push the boundaries in capital markets, data mining or robotics?

Whatever your passion, our research degrees will help you make a difference – just as our research students are doing in the rapidly advancing world of genomics.

From the molecular to the spectacular

Molecular biologist Alfred Lim Wai Yen was studying hard as usual when he heard he’d won one of Malaysia’s top scholarships, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Scholarship, allowing him take his PhD at Cambridge University.