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PAST NEWS & EVENTS

14 May 2022

Dr. Pike See Cheah was recognized as the winner of the 2022 KANS Scientific Competition in the Health & Med-Tech field for her scientific work titled “Repurposing ruxolitinib: novel insights to improve learning and memory in down syndrome”.

10 November 2021

Dr. Michael Ling shared his thoughts about “Mini Brain” with the audience of 89.9 BFM (hosted by Lim Sue Ann). Check the podcast HERE.

21 October 2021

Pike See Cheah shared her thoughts about “Gene Therapy” with the audience of 89.9 BFM (hosted by Lim Sue Ann). Check the podcast HERE.

30 June 2021

Pike See Cheah delivered a talk regarding on how “Towards writing an impactful research paper” during International e-Seminar ‘FMHS UPM’s Silver Jubilee: Education and Research Excellence in Diversity’.

30 June 2021

Michael Ling delivered a talk regarding repurposing “Ruxolitinib for improving learning and memory in rodents” during International e-Seminar ‘FMHS UPM’s Silver Jubilee: Education and Research Excellence in Diversity’.

28 June 2021

 Pike See Cheah delivered a talk at the “ALBA Webinar: Diversity in brain research in East & South-East Asia: a gender perspective” (talk by Dr. Cheah is at 56:04:00 to 1:08:00).

28 June 2021

Pike See Cheah delivered a talk at the “ALBA Webinar: Diversity in brain research in East & South-East Asia: a gender perspective” (talk by Dr. Cheah is at 56:04:00 to 1:08:00).

1 June 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCQUJno3Qw&t=1s

Pike See Cheah (Chair, IBRO-APRC)  hosted the 2nd IBRO Global Neuroscience Horizons Webinar: ‘Translational neuroscience & novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases in the Asia/Pacific region‘.

17 May 2021

Pike-See Cheah delivers her recent gene therapy paper on “Delivery of AAV9 encoding a condensed form of tuberin in TSC2 mouse model” published in Science Advances (2021) in a digital platform, www.sci-talk.org for the scientific community. Click here to watch the talk online.

6 April 2021

Push for gender balance goes on“. In conjunction with Minggu Sains Negara 2021, Pike-See Cheah was invited as one of the speakers at the  Women in Zcience (WIZ) 2021: Choose to Challenge programme. Check out for her talk entitled: “Me, My Brain and I” at 1:37:13 to 1:50:00 by clicking here.

10 December 2020

Congratulations to Michael Ling for being awarded the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Return Home Fellowship 2021 with EUR20,000 career advancement grant to kickstart preliminary research on cerebral organoids. [Read more]

20 November 2020

Pike-See Cheah (AAV-mediated gene therapy for TSC) & Michael Ling (REST-less in AD’s models) presented in the PGM Seminar 2020 as invited speakers. Click here to watch the recorded seminar.

1 March 2020

Pike-See Cheah (with the mentors – Xandra Breakefield,  Casey Maguire, and colleague, Shilpa Prabhakar, MGH and Harvard medical School) was featured in News & Highlights of CDMRP, USA. [Read more]

11 November 2019

‘Translational research in field of neuroscience need of the hour’

Pike-See Cheah, was invited as the guest of honour at the inauguration of the “4th IBRO/APRC Chandigarh Associate School on Translational Neuroscience”, November 2020.  [Read more]

21 September 2019

Pike-See Cheah was appointed the Chief Judge of the International Brain Bee World Championship 2019, Daegu, South Korea, in conjunction with the World Congress of Neuroscience 2019. [Read more]

29 January 2019

Neurons in blue and turquoise stand out against neurons in pink and green

The cover image of Cell Reports for 2019 vol 26 no 5 was taken by Michael Ling & Katharina Meyer in the paper describing “REST and Neural Gene Network Dysregulation in iPSC Models of Alzheimer’s Disease”.  [Read more]

11 March 2018

Congratulations to the launching of Neuroscience Research Notes. Dr Michael Ling is one of the founding editors-in-chief whereas Dr. Pike-See Cheah is the member of the editorial board. The journal is a free open access journal focusing on liberating and unleashing science for all. [Read more]

22 November 2017

Congratulations to Mr Hadri Hadi Md Yusof (middle) for passing his Master of Science viva voce on 20 November 2017. The details of their theses title can be assessed at the member’s page. [Read more]

21 June 2016

We support 14th APSN 2016 meeting in Kuala Lumpur from 27th till 30th August 2016. Pike-See was the chair for the event! Visit www.apsn2016.org for more information. [Read more]

14 April 2016

A very touching and educational movie on Autism in conjunction with Autism Awareness Month – REDHA!

27 December 2015

Drs. Pike-See Cheah and Michael KH Ling were both invited to deliver talks during a movement disorders symposium organised in conjunction with the IBRO-APRC Associate School of Neuroscience at University of Sri Jeyawardenepura, Sri Lanka. The school was organised from 14-21 December 2015. [Read more]

7 June 2015

Three NBGG members (Angeline, Melody and Chai Ling) were awarded the top 3 prizes for Best Poster Presentation under the Basic Neuroscience category during the 26th Annual Scientific Meeting Of Malaysian Society Of Neurosciences (MSN 2015), an annual meeting for the Malaysian Neuroscience Community.

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