Karex Berhad has announced the appointment of Professor Dato Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman as the new Chairman following Dato Dr Ong Leng Long's resignation.

Professor Dato' Dr. Adeeba binti Kamarulzaman 61, graduated from Monash University in 1987 and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Monash Medical Centre and Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

She is presently the Dean of Medicine at University of Malaya and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University, USA. She established the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (CERiA) that conducts multi-disciplinary research on HIV ranging from clinical studies to public health and policy research.

She is also the current Chairwoman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and an Executive Council member of the Malaysian AIDS Council. She is the President-Elect of the International AIDS Society and a member of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel on HIV. She has been an advisor to numerous WHO committees on HIV/AIDS and was a two term Co-Chair of the Strategic and Advisory Committee on HIV for the World Health Organisation. She has played a critical role in the establishment and operations of TREAT Asia, a regional HIV research network funded by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including the Tun Mahathir Science and Merdeka Awards for her role as a member of the University of Malaya's Nipah Investigative Team. She is also the first recipient of the Advance Australia Global Award in the category of Alumni in 2012, and, in April 2015 she was honoured with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from her alma mater, Monash University. She has the distinct honour of having her achievements featured in both The Lancet and Science publications in 2013 and 2014 respectively.