Dr AR Omar (ARO), obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia in 1991 and PhD in Cellular Immunology from Cornell University, the USA in 1997. Upon completion his PhD, he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UPM as a lecturer and was promoted to Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in 2008. He was also the Deputy Director of Institute Bioscience (IBS) at UPM from 2006 until 2011 and was promoted as  Director of IBS from 2012 to 2019. Presently, we is the Dean of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UPM and Principal Investigator at Laboratory of Vaccines and Biomolecules, IBS. He is the Chairman of Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN). His research interest is in using biotechnology and immunogenomics approaches in the development of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics against poultry diseases. We work closely with various agencies and industries related to poultry health and production. He is also President of World Veterinary Poultry Association, Malaysia and serves as regional advisor of Global Alliance for Research on Avian Diseases (GARAD). He published actively in various journals related to poultry health and diseases, which can be accessed via PubMed, NCBI site using search name Omar AR.