Dr Fazren has obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology in 2016 from The University of Queensland (Australia). He is currently a senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics and hold a management position as the Head of Industry and Community Partnership at Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM.

Dr. Fazren was awarded and managing several research projects, funded by institutional grants (e.g. Dana Impak Perdana) and MOHE (e.g. FRGS) which involves pre-clinical translation of active biomaterials designed specifically as therapeutics or as a delivery system for subunit-based vaccine antigens. Recently, he has received funding for intranasal Covid-19 vaccine development under Geran Khas Prihatin (GKP), which has served to place Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM in the forefront of research in the area of Covid-19 vaccine development.

He was the recipient of the 4th National PERMATA Nobelist Mindset Award and CRS Young Scientist Travel Award 2019.