Professor Dr. Dato’ Hj. Jafri Malin Abdullah studied in Sekolah Menengah Sains Bukit Mertajam and SMS Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa and Leederville Technical College, Perth, Western Australia and the University of Western Australia. He graduated later with an MD from the School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia in 1986. In 1994, he was awarded the Diplomate Certification of Specialization in Neurosurgery from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D (Magna Cum Laude) from the same university in 1995FF. He was trained as a fellow in Karolinska Institute and Hospital University under the late Prof.Meyerson and did a short attachment Skull Base Surgery under the late Professor Rhoton of University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He is currently Professor of Neurosciences and the Chairman of Brain and Behavior Cluster, School of Medical Sciences, USM. He was awarded the prestigious Young National Malaysian Scientist Award in 1999 and Top Research Scientist Award, Academy Science Malaysia in 2013 both by the Prime Minister of that period. Part of his cluster’s research were focused on new treatments in the field of neurooncology, medicinal chemistry in the field of CNS tuberculosis, epilepsy and pain as well as neuro-ethnopharmacology. Together with the Transcranial Magnetic stimulation facilities and complete behaviour lab, his other cluster concentrates on comparative as well as clinical neuropsychology and behavioral neurosciences. Besides being responsible in setting up labs for functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalography, high density electroencephalography, neurogenetics, rodent animal behavior, electrophysiology, stem cell culture and primary cell laboratories his most recently research activity are in the field neuroinformatics and neurotechnologies. Professor Dr Jafri has 304 publications was in Scopus and has a H-Index of 29. He is the Chief Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences and is editorial board member/International editor of 9 (nine) world wide neuroscience journals. He was involved teaching and graduating more than 98 neurosurgeons, neurologists & 123 neuroscientists as well as clinical psychologist via the Masters of Surgery (Neurology), Advance Master Internal Medicine (Neurology), Master of Science (Neuroscience) and PhD Neuroscience and recently initiated Asia’s first Integrated Doctor of Neurosciences Programme as well as the first joint Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Programme. Professor Dato’ Dr. Jafri established more than 20 neuroscience clubs in secondary and primary schools in Malaysia and is the Malaysian representative for the International Brain Bee Competition as well as advisor and mentor to the International Youth Neuroscience Association, Simply Neuroscience, Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics based in the United States of America.