Chit Laa Poh graduated with a PhD (Microbiology) from Monash University in 1981. She joined the Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor in 1981 and became an Associate Professor in 1998. She has served as an Adjunct Senior Scientist of the National University Hospital and Senior Research Fellow of the National Eye Research Institute of Singapore from 2005-2007. She remained in NUS till 2007 and accepted a Visiting Professorship of Biomedical Science in Curtin University of Technology, Perth in May 2005 until January 2006. In 2007, she became a Professor in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne. She returned to Malaysia in 2010 and accepted a Professorship of Medical Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. In 2011, she was appointed as the Head of School of Natural Sciences at Sunway University and became the Inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology in March 2012. She is currently appointed as a Distinguished Professor in Jan 2016 and assumes the role of Head in the Research Centre for Biomedical Sciences-RCBS (2016 Jan-2017 Jan), Sunway University. She has graduated 11 PhD and 8 MSc students in NUS (Singapore), completed co-supervising 1 PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine, UM. Dr. Chee Wah Tan graduated with a PhD with Distinction in October, 2014 working on “The role of Cell Surface Heparin Sulfate in EV-A71 Infections and the Development Antiviral Agents Targeting Viral Attachment and RNA Translation Initiationâ€. In addition, she has completed co-supervising 3 PhD students from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne in 2012 and 2013, respectively. In 2016, the RCBS attracted a grant RM 178,000 awarded to her and Dr Babu Ramanathan (Department of Biological Sciences) for development of a tetravalent peptide vaccine against dengue. A PhD student under her supervision has successfully been awarded the Ranjeet Bhagwan Singh research grant administered by MOSTI in late Dec, 2017. She has published 92 internationally-refereed papers in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, PLoS One, and many others. She has also co-authored four chapters in books such as Peptide Antibodies, Pseudomonas-Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The Battle against Microbial Pathogens: Basic Science, Technological Advances and Educational Programs and Diagnostic Virology Protocols. She has also presented 45 internationally-refereed conference papers. She has been a Premium Member of the American Society of Microbiology and a member of the Japan Society for Biotechnology. She had collaborations with Oxford and Harvard University faculty members on the development of vectored dengue vaccine and the study of small RNAs in gene regulation.
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