Drug Discovery and Development

Members: Prof. Chow Sek Chuen, Dr. Michelle Yap, Dr. Lee Wai Leng, Dr Ng Chen Seng, Dr. Tan Ji Wei, Dr Adzzie Shazleen Azman, Dr Joash Tan Ban Lee,  Dr Juwaini binti Abu Bakar, Dr Max Lai Hien Tat

Areas of expertise from this group include cell death assays and toxicology studies, glucose metabolism, gene delivery and expression, neuroscience, molecular virology and infectious disease, pathogenic mechanism of infectious diseases, tissue regeneration, antibody engineering, cancer biology, advanced protein technology and proteomics, antimicrobial resistance and biostatistics. Other areas of interest are recombinant protein expression and downstream processing, overexpression and silencing of genes, immunomodulation, ethnopharmacology, anti-inflammatory and oxidative stress assays.

The group also provide consultancy on antibody development and purification, in vitro and in vivo toxicology studies, clinical biochemistry and chemical pathology diagnostics, trouble-shooting and optimisation of research projects.