Dr. Cheah serves as the current President of Malaysian Biomedical Science Association, BiomedKL and Korean Government Scholarship Programme Alumni, Malaysia. Dr. Cheah is an established scientist with more than 200 scientific publications in international and peer-reviewed journals and serves as the Editorial Board of Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences. He leads more than 15 research projects funded by public and private agencies. Dr. Cheah was awarded as the Young Researcher’s Award in 2007, recipient of the outstanding academic achievement and promising career development, 19th Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologist (FAOBMB) Seoul Conference, COEX Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2007, and won a total of 3 Gold, 11 Silver and 10 Bronze medals in various local and international research exhibition. Dr. Cheah also successfully filed 3 patents and 1 copyright.
Dr Cheah believes that in everyone benefits from precision medicine and targeted therapy. Holding this belief, he is going to impress us with his talk themed [Precision Medicine: Reality or utopia?].
Key #Quote : “Precision Medicine: Hype or Hope?
#TED #TEDx #TEDxKangar #Perlis Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cheah Yoke Kqueen is the Deputy Director for the Centre of Industry Relations and Networks (CiRNeT), UPM. He is also the faculty member in the Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is currently the Technical Advisor on Molecular Diagnostic to Subang Jaya Medical Centre. Dr. Cheah is a Chartered Scientist and Fellow of Institute of Biomedical Science, UK and also the Chartered Biologist with Royal Society of Biology, UK. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx