Office address:
Department of Microbiology,
Faculty of Medicine
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Jl. Farmako, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta Indonesia 55281

Telp. +62-274-580297

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

 

 

Member of Research and Technology Department, KIPMI

M. Saifudin Hakim was born in Rembang, Central Java, Indonesia, on 22^nd of February 1985. He was raised by his beloved parents and grew up together with his 2 brothers and 1 sister. In 2003, he completed high school (SMA Taruna Nusantara, Magelang) and started his medical school at Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta Indonesia (2003-2007). After two years of clinical internship (2007-2009), he obtained his medical degree in 2009. He obtained his master degree in the Research Master Program of Infection and Immunity, Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2011-2013). At the moment, he is a PhD student at the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) Rotterdam, the Netherlands under supervision of Dr. Qiuwei Abdullah Pan. His PhD research focus on virus-drug-host interactions, especially hepatitis virus. Currently, he is an academic staff at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia

Publication

1. Hakim MS, Spaan M, Janssen HLA, Boonstra A. Inhibitory receptor molecules in chronic hepatitis B and C infections: novel targets for immunotherapy? Reviews in Medical Virology 2014; 24: 125-138.

2. Hakim MS, Zhou X, Wang Y, Peppelenbosch MP, Pan Q. Anti-diabetic drugs, insulin and metformin, have no direct interaction with hepatitis C virus infection or anti-viral interferon response. AIMS Molecular Science 2014; 1(1): 49-58.

Research Project

1. Hospital Based Surveillance and Strain Characterization of Rotavirus Diarrhea in Indonesia (August 2009 – August 2011, as a research assistant)

2. Isolation and Identification of Diarrhea-Causing Rotavirus Strain in Children under Five Years Old of Age in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (RISBIN IPTEKDOK, Ministry of Health; January – December 2010)

3. Virulence Factor Differences between Pathogenic and Commensal Candida albicans (DANA MASYARAKAT, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada; June 2010 – February 2011)

4. Characterization of the DNA repair machinery of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma genitalium (Supervisor Dr. Cornelis Vink, Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam; December 2011 – November 2012)

5. Inhibitory receptor molecules in chronic Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C infections (Supervisor Dr. Andre Boonstra, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam; December 2012 – July 2013)

6. Interaction of anti-diabetic drugs with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and anti-viral interferon response (Infection and Immunity Fund, Erasmus MC, Supervisor Dr. Qiuwei Abdullah Pan, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam; September – December 2013)