NeuroBiology & Genetics Group
"To educate and inspire through discoveries"
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
PROFESSOR MICHAEL LING | Department of Biomedical Science | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences | Universiti Putra Malaysia | Email: Click here
Dr. Michael KH Ling is a developmental neurogeneticist and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has an interest in the field of neurogenetics, genomics, and bioinformatics. He pursued his Ph.D. in Neurogenetics at Professor Hamish Scott’s laboratory, University of Adelaide, Australia. He won a Dean’s Commendation for An Outstanding Thesis Award and the CCB Award for his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Identification of transcripts involved in differentiation, proliferation and developmental networks of the mouse cerebral cortex”. He has published various articles in peer-reviewed journals of high impact factors such as Genome Research, Genome Biology, Cell Reports, Science Advances, Nature Communications and Cerebral Cortex. He has also won various research (UPM R&D Silver Medal, best poster and oral presentations and travel grants) and academic (NSF, MIFRS, AFSI, UPMSTS, ASM-Lindau Foundation, IBRO/ISN Research Fellowship) awards throughout his early career as a neuroscientist. He spent about 4-year as the IBRO/ISN Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Bruce Yankner’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Dr. Ling is an active member of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences and was the past Vice President and Honorary Treasurer of the society. He was also the Malaysian representative to the Governing Council of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (2012-2019) and the Federation of Asia-Oceania Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) (2012-2017), two sister organizations that oversee the development of neuroscience discipline in the world and Asia pacific regions, respectively. Currently he is the elected council member of Asia Pacific Neurochemistry Society (APSN) (2020-2028). He is a strong advocate of science outreach programmes in the country via the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Science Malaysia (YSN-ASM) (2012-2021), a prestigious network that he served as one of the protem committe members during its establishment.
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PROFESSOR PIKE-SEE CHEAH | Department of Human Anatomy | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences | Universiti Putra Malaysia | Email: Click here
Dr. Pike-See Cheah is an Anatomist, Neuroscientist and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from Universiti Putra Malaysia and her PhD in Human Anatomy from the National University of Malaysia. She then embarked on postdoctoral training in Neurobiology from University of Adelaide and Centre for Cancer Biology, to identify and to understand the function of causative genes for disorders of sexual development and neuropsychiatric diseases. She further widened research experience from her sabbatical training in various fields including stroke, cancer biology, gene therapy, and extracellular vesicles from Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA.
She has published the research findings in journals with high impact factors including Cell, Molecular Psychiatry, Science Advances, Cerebral Cortex, Genome Biology and Cell Reports.
As an active member of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (MSN), Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN) and the International Brain Research Organization-Asia Pacific Research Committee (IBRO-APRC), she helps to promote collaborative networks between clinical and non-clinical neuroscientists as well as to improve the quality of the neuroscience research in Malaysia and internationally. Dr. Cheah also wishes to materialise the dream of effective translation from bench to bedside and, ultimately, to extend her role by reaching out to society to disseminate knowledge on the relevance of her research for better management and treatment of neurological disorders.
Dr. Cheah is also dedicated to building relationships among students, school teachers, and the general public. “Share Science” is her philosophy of life. She is very interested in designing fun, inspiring, and new ways to learn NEUROSCIENCE and HUMAN ANATOMY during school outreach programs, science expos, and edu-tourism activities, with the hope of inspiring and cultivating science awareness in the young generation.
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