Patents


  1. Iis Sopyan, and  Maizirwan  Mel, A Novel IIUM Bioactive Ceramic Microcarrier,Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20080327 (20 Feb 2008).
  2. Iis Sopyan and Toibah Abd Rahim, Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Scaffold Containing Magnesium and a Preparation Method Thereof, Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20084585 (November 2008).
  3. Iis Sopyan, Porous Hydroxyapatite-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Acid Composite Device, Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20085331 ( December 2008).
  4. Iis Sopyan and Ahmad Fadli, Novel method to produce porous ceramics,Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20091717 (28 April 2009).
  5. Iis Sopyan and Natasha A. Nawawi, Bioactive Dense Hydroxyapatite for Load Bearing Bone Implant Applications and Effect of Manganesse Doping on Mechanical Improvement, Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20093856 (15 September 2009).
  6. Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan and Yusilawati Ahmad Nor, Development of Porous Microcarrier for DF1 Cell Culture using Sago as the Pore Creating Agent.Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20090675.
  7. Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan, and Fouad Abdeen, Development of Ceramic Membrane Chromatography for Biologic Purification, Malaysia Patent, PI No. 20090252.
  8. Maizirwan Mel, Yusilawati Ahmad Nor, Hamzah Mohd Salleh, and Iis Sopyan, A Halal Coated Microcarrier for Vero Cell Culture and Method for Producing Thereof, Malaysia Patent, PI No. 2010-004159.



Awards


International Level

  1. “Silver Medal”, for the invention of  “Development of Synthetic Bone Materials for Biomedical Applications” at 18th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 07), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 18-20 May 2007. (Inventors: Singh Ramesh, Tan Chou Yong, Iis Sopyan, Mohd. Hamdi).
  2. “Gold Medal”, for the research of “Development of High Toughness Synthetic Bioceramics for Bone Implant Technology” at British Innovation and Technology Show 2007, London, UK, 17-20 October 2007. (Inventors: Mohd. Hamdi, Tan Chou Yong, Iis Sopyan, Ramesh Singh).
  3. “Double Gold Award” for the research of “Development of High Toughness Synthetic Bioceramics for Bone Implant Technology” at British Innovation and Technology Show 2007, London, UK, 17-20 October 2007.  (Inventors: Mohd. Hamdi, Tan Chou Yong, Iis Sopyan, Ramesh Singh).
  4. "Gold Medal" for the Innovation of "Bioactive Dense Bone Implants" at 56th EUREKA International Invention and Innovation Show, Brussels (Belgium), 22-25 November 2007.  (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Natasha Ahmad Nawawi, Ramesh Singh, Mohd. Hamdi).
  5. "Gold Medal" for the Innovation of "Porous Ceramic Microcarriers for Chicken Fibroblast Cell Culture" at 56th EUREKA International Invention and Innovation Show, Brussels (Belgium), 22-25 November 2007. (Inventors: Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan, Nurul Huda Hussain).
  6. "Silver Medal" for the Innovation of "A Novel Method to Produce TiO2 Powder for Photocatalyst Application" at 56th EUREKA International Invention and Innovation Show, Brussels (Belgium), 22-25 November 2007.  (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Nor Hafizah, Natasha A. Nawawi, Radhiyah A. Aziz).
  7. “Gold Medal”, for the invention of  “Development of novel Method to produce hydroxyapatite” at 19th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08), Kuala Lumpur  (Malaysia), 9-11 May 2008.(Inventor: Iis Sopyan, Rosli Asmawi).
  8. “Gold Medal”, for the invention of  “Development of Ceramic microcarrier for cell culture” at 19th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 9-11 May 2008. (Inventors: Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan, Yusilawati Mohd Nor).
  9. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of  “Development of Mg-doped hydroxyapatite for Bone implant Applications” at 19th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 9-11 May 2008. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Maizirwan Mel, Toibah Abd Rahim).
  10. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of  “Zirconia based materials for biomedical application” at 19th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 9-11 May 2008. (Inventors: Ramesh Signh, Tan Chou Yong, Iis Sopyan).
  11. “Gold Medal” at International Trade Fair “Ideas, Inventions, New Products” Exhibition (iENA) 2008 exhibition for the invention of “Development of bioactive bone implant materials“ (Nurenberg, Germany, 30 Oct-2 Nov 2008). (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Natasha A. Nawawi, Toibah Abd Rahim, Ramesh Singh). 
  12. “Gold Medal” at International Trade Fair “Ideas, Inventions, New Products” Exhibition (iENA) 2008 exhibition for the invention of “TiO2 semiconductor photocatalyst for highly efficient solar energy conversion“ (Nurenberg, Germany, 30 Oct-2 Nov 2008). (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Nor Hafizah, Radhiyah A. Aziz). 
  13. “Gold Medal” at International Trade Fair “Ideas, Inventions, New Products” Exhibition (iENA) 2008 exhibition for the invention of “Novel ceramic microcarrier for cell culture “ (Nurenberg, Germany, 30 Oct-2 Nov 2008). (Inventors: Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan, Yusilawati Mohd Nor).
  14.  “Gold Medal”, for the invention of “Magnesium containing calcium phosphate micro carrier for high density cell culture” at 20th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 09), Kuala Lumpur  (Malaysia), 15-17 May 2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Toibah Abd Rahim, Maizirwan Mel).
  15. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of “Protein foaming consolidation method: a novel technique to produce porous ceramics” at 20th International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 09), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 15-17 May 2009.  (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Ahmad Fadli)
  16. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “High Performance TiO2 Powder Photocatalysts for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion” at Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart 2009, Taipei (Taiwan), 24–27 September 2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Tarmizi, Radhiah Abd. Aziz)
  17. “Bronze Medal” for the invention of “Magnesium Containing Calcium Phosphate Microcarrier for High Density Cell Culture” at Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart 2009, Taipei (Taiwan), 24–27 September 2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Toibah Abd Rahim, Maizirwan Mel) 
  18.  “Silver Medal”, at 21st International Innovation, Design, and Technology Exhibition (ITEX ‘10), Kuala Lumpur  (Malaysia), 6-9 May 2010. (Inventors: Ramesh Singh, Tan Chou Yong, Iis Sopyan)

National Level

  1. “Silver Medal”, for the invention of “Porous Hydroxyapatite for Artificial Human Spongy Bones  “at PECIPTA 2007, Kuala Lumpur, 10 -12 August 2007. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Nur Shuhada Sulaiman, Mohd Hamdi, Ramesh Singh, Jasminder Kaur)
  2. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of “Magnesium-Doped Hydroxyapatite for Faster Bone Growth“ at PECIPTA 2007, Kuala Lumpur, 10 -12 August 2007. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Toibah A Rahim, Rozleen Faizah Rosly, Ramesh Singh, Mohd. Hamdi)
  3. “Bronze medal” for the inventions of novel TiO2 photocatalysts at Malaysia Technology Expo 2008 (MTE 2008), Kuala Lumpur,  21-23 February  2008. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Nor Hafizah, Radhiyah A. Aziz). 
  4. “Bronze medal” for the inventions of dense hydroxyapatite at Malaysia Technology Expo 2008 (MTE 2008), Kuala Lumpur,  21-23 February  2008. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Natasha A. Nawawi)
  5. “Bronze medal” for the inventions of a new method to produce hydroxyapatite powder using eggshell at Malaysia Technology Expo 2008 (MTE 2008), Kuala Lumpur,  21-23 February  2008.  (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Raihana Mohd Fawzi).
  6. “Best Poster Award” for the category of biomaterials, at 2nd  MTERMS  (organized  by Tissue Engineering Society of Malaysia, TESMA), Kuala Lumpur, 22-23 July 2008. (Inventors: Toibah Abd Rahim, Iis Sopyan, Maizirwan Mel).
  7. “Gold medal” for the inventions of “a novel straightforward method to produce hydroxyapatite powder using eggshell” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2009 (MTE 2009), Kuala Lumpur,  19-21 February 2009. (Inventor: Iis Sopyan, Raihana Mohammed Fawzi)
  8. “Bronze medal” for the inventions of “Porous ceramics for cell culture” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2009 (MTE 2009), Kuala Lumpur,  19-21 February  2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Toibah Abd Rahim, Maizirwan Mel).
  9. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of “Development of Gelatin Coated Micro Carrier for Animal Cell Culture” at Bio Malaysia 2009, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), November 2009. (Inventors: Maizirwan Mel, Yusilawati Ahmad Nor, Iis Sopyan, Hamzah Mohd Salleh, K.H. NG & C.S. Wong).
  10. “Bronze Medal”, for the invention of “Nanostructured Manganese Doped Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Ceramics for Human Cortical Bone Implant Application” at Bio Malaysia 2009, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), November 2009.Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Natasha Ahmad Nawawi & Qasim Hussain Shah)
  11. “Bronze Medal” for the invention of “Floating Porous Ceramics for High Density Cell Culture in  Stirred Bioreactors” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2010 (MTE 2010), Kuala Lumpur,  4-6  February  2010.  (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Maizirwan Mel, Ahmad Fadli, Nur Izzati Zulkifli)
  12. “Bronze Medal” for the invention of “High Strength and Lightweight Concrete for Sustainable and Greener Environment” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2010 (MTE 2010), Kuala Lumpur,  4-6  February  2010. (Inventors : Zuraida Ahmad, Nor Shahida, Iis Sopyan)
  13. “Bronze Medal” for “Application of low cost polyurethane foam for fabricating porous tricalcium phosphate” at Islam Innovation Expo 2010 (i-INOVA ’10), 26-28  September  2010. (Inventors : Zuraida Ahmad, Fariza Abdulrahman, Iis Sopyan)
  14. “Bronze Medal” for “Lightweight biocomposites board for sustainable environment” at Islam Innovation Expo 2010 (i-INOVA ’10), 26-28  September  2010. (Inventors : Zuraida Ahmad, Yusliza Yusof, Iis Sopyan)
  15. “Bronze Medal” for “Improved CVd reactor for Efficient and less hazardous synthesis of lab scale carbon nanomaterials” at BioMalaysia Expo 2010, 1-3  November  2010. (Inventors : Abdullah Al-mamun, Mohammed Al Saadi, Suleyman A. Muyibi, Md. Zahangir Alam, Iis Sopyan, A.F. Ismail, A. Idris, M.A. Atieh, Y.M. Ahmed)
  16. “Silver Medal” for “Novel Preparation Method to Produce Bone Cement for Bone Filler Application” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2011 (MTE 2011), Kuala Lumpur, 17-19  February  2011. (Inventors : Iis Sopyan, Asep Sofwan Faturohman Alqap)
  17. “Bronze Medal” for “Application of Low Cost Polyurethane Foam for Fabricating Porous Tricalcium Phosphate for Bone Substitution” at Malaysia Technology Expo 2011 (MTE 2011), Kuala Lumpur, 17-19  February  2011.  (Inventors : Zuraida Ahmad, Fariza Abdul Rahman, Iis Sopyan).

University Level

  1. “Gold Medal”, for the research of “Production of Hydroxyapatite for Bone Implant Materials by Using Eggshell”, at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Raihana Mohd Fawzi)
  2. “Gold Medal”, for the research of “A Novel and Simple Method to Produce Nanosized TiO2 Powder”, at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007. (Inventors: Hazleen Anuar, Iis Sopyan, Nor Hafizah, Natasha Ahmad Nawawi)
  3. “Silver Medal”, for the research of “Decolorization of Organic Dye for Textile Industry Effluent Treatment Using Photocatalysis Technique”, at Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Mohd Ismail Abdulkarim, Nor Ishida)
  4. “Bronze Medal”, for the research of “Porous Hydroxyapatite- Biopolymer Composite with a Concurrent Function of Bone Substitute and Drug Releasing Agent”, at Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007.
  5. “Bronze Medal”, for the research of “Development Of Ceramic Membrane For Biological Product Separation”, at Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007.
  6. “Bronze Medal”, for the research of “A Novel And Rapid Method For The Quantitative Determination Of Toxic Dye Using (FTIR) Spectroscopy”, at Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibitions 2007 (KERIE 2007), 12-13 Dec 2007.
  7. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube on Iron Impregnated Activated Carbon” at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibition 2006  “KERIE  09”,  Kuala Lumpur, 21 January 2009. (Inventors: Mohammed A. Al-Saadi, Abdullah-Al-Manun, Suleyman A. Muyibi, Muataz A. Ateih, Md. Zahangir Alam, Iis Sopyan, Yehya M. Ahmed).
  8. “Bronze Medal” for the invention of “Development of Ceramic Membrane Chromatography” at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibition 2006  “KERIE  09”,  Kuala Lumpur, 21 January 2009. (Inventors: Maizirwan Mel, Iis Sopyan, Fouad R. H. Abdeen). 
  9. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Protein Foaming-Consolidation Method: A Novel Technique To Produce Porous Ceramics with Controllable and Adjustable Physical Properties” at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibition 2006  “KERIE  09”,  Kuala Lumpur, 21 January 2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Ahmad Fadli). 
  10. “Bronze Medal” for the invention of  “Production of Highly Crystalline and Pure Hydroxyapatite for Bone Implant Materials by Using Seashell” at IIUM Kulliyyah of Engineering Research and Innovation Exhibition 2006  “KERIE  09”,  Kuala Lumpur, 21 January 2009. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Syazana Ahmad Zubair)
  11.  “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Lightweight Biodegradable Cotton/Albumen Board (CAB) for Sustainable Environment” at International Islamic University Malaysia Exhibition and Innovation (IRIIE) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 26-27 January 2010. (Inventors: Zuraida Ahmad, Yusliza Yusuf, Iis Sopyan).
  12.  “Commercial Potential Award” for the invention of “Floating Porous Ceramics for High Density Cell Culture in  Stirred Bioreactors” at International Islamic University Malaysia Exhibition and Innovation (IRIIE) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 26-27 January 2010. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Maizirwan Mel, Ahmad Fadli, Nur Izzati Zulkifli).
  13. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Modification of CVD Reactor for Carbon Nanomaterials Production” at International Islamic University Malaysia Exhibition and Innovation (IRIIE) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 26-27 January 2010. (Inventors: Abdullah Al-Mamun, Mohammed Al-Saadi, Suleyman A. Muyibi, Md. Zahangir Alam, Iis Sopyan, A. F. Ismail, M. A. Atieh. Y.M. Ahmed).
  14. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Novel porous alumina-hydroxyapatite composites for cell culture application in stirred bioreactor” at International Islamic University Malaysia Exhibition and Innovation (IRIIE) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 9-10 February 2011. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Ahmad Fadli, Maizirwan Mel, Nor Shahidah, Nur Nadia).
  15. “Silver Medal” for the invention of “Novel porous alumina-hydroxyapatite composites for cell culture application in stirred bioreactor” at International Islamic University Malaysia Exhibition and Innovation (IRIIE) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 9-10 February 2011. (Inventors: Iis Sopyan, Ahmad Fadli, Maizirwan Mel, Nor Shahidah, Nur Nadia).