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								Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Medicine Research), 2020
								Imperial College London
							
						  						
							
								
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								Masters in Science (Molecular Medicine), 2012
								Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
							
						  						
							
								
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								Bachelor in Science (Microbiology), 2007
								Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
							
						  					  					 						
							
								
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								Investigating the Relationship between Nutritional Status and Dietary Habits in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically-Developing Children
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 12 Dec 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
							
						  						
							
								
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								A retrospective study on the glycaemic control and growth trajectories following a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in children from Negeri Sembilan
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 24 Oct 2024 - 30 Sep 2025
							
						  						
							
								
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								Association of plasma exosomal caveolin-1 with diabetes and its complication in Seremban diabetes (SeDia) population: a potential biomarker
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 09 Aug 2024 - 30 Sep 2026
							
						  						
							
								
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								The Landscape of COVID-19 Vaccine Infodemic in the Malay Language: An Analysis of Social Media Content
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 01 Jun 2024 - 31 Aug 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Epidemiological and molecular characterisation of carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children under five years of age during pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) implementation in Malaysia
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 04 Apr 2024 - 26 Jun 2026
							
						  						
							
								
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								Body composition and measured energy expenditure in relation to dietary intake among regular climbers
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 01 Dec 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Impacts of microbiota profile on the nutritional status of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Malaysia
								MoHE Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) | 01 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2025
							
						  						
							
								
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								Investigation On the Association Of Urinary Antigen Test In Paediatric Pneumonia in The East-Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 04 Sep 2023 - 15 Mar 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Identification of respiratory tract pathogens among children with pneumonia using multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
								IMU Internal Research Grant | 12 Jun 2023 - 17 Sep 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Pneumococcal carriage and serotype distribution in children with otitis media in Malaysia
								MSD Investigator Studies Program (MISP) | 31 Oct 2022 - 31 Jul 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Identification of human genomic variations related to obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) in Malaysian and Southeastern Asian population
								Internal | 01 Jul 2022 - 30 Sep 2022
							
						  						
							
								
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								Identification of human genomic variations related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and obesity in Malaysian and Southeastern Asian population.
								Internal | 01 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
							
						  						
							
								
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								Relationship between individual personality traits and use of electronic cigarettes, waterpipe or traditional cigarettes: An institutional cross-sectional study
								Internal | 16 Jun 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
							
						  						
							
								
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								Evaluating the burden of paediatric pneumococcal pneumonia in Malaysia prior to and during pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) implementation
								Merck Investigator Study Program (MISP) | 01 Jun 2021 - 31 May 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Mechanisms of underlying increased blood pressure in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis in a postmenopausal rat model
								FRGS | 01 Jun 2021 - 31 Jan 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Awareness, preparedness, and barriers towards promoting and assisting tobacco cessation among dental undergraduates: A multi-country cross-sectional study.
								IMU Internal Research Grants | 31 May 2021 - 31 Mar 2022
							
						  						
							
								
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								Development of pooling strategy for COVID 19  RT-PCR testing
								IMU | 17 Apr 2020 - 30 Apr 2020
							
						  						
							
								
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								Maternal mortality trend and pattern in Malaysia over a 10-year period (2009-2018)
								Internal | 16 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
							
						  					 
										 						
							
								
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								UNRAVELLING PUTATIVE ETHNIC-SPECIFIC OBESITY LOCI IN MALAYSIAN YOUTHS: A PRELIMINARY GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY
								THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2025
							
						  						
							
								
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								Body composition and measured energy expenditure in relation to dietary intake among regular climbers in Klang Valley, Malaysia
								SPORT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH 2025
							
						  						
							
								
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								Predictors and Trends of Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Malaysian Children
								JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RESEARCH IN PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Multicentre Case-Control Study of Pneumococcal Infections Among Children with Pneumonia in Peninsular Malaysia (MY Pneumo): A Study Protocol
								BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 2024
							
						  						
							
								
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								Severe obesity may be an oligogenic condition: evidence from 1,714 adults seeking treatment in the UK National Health Service
								MEDRXIV 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Depression mediates the relationship between alexithymia and obesity in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966)
								JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Personality Traits and Sociodemographic Factors Associated with the Use of E-Cigarettes, Waterpipe and Conventional Cigarettes among Medical University Students
								INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022
							
						  						
							
								
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								COVID-19 Sample Pooling: From RNA Extraction to Quantitative Real-time RT-PCR
								BIO-PROTOCOL 2021
							
						  						
							
								
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								Personality Traits and Annual Income Determine the Willingness to Pay for a Single Tooth Implant
								HEALTHCARE 2021
							
						  						
							
								
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								A novel strategy for community screening of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Sample pooling method
								PloS one 2020
							
						  						
							
								
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								Relationship between BMI and emotion-handling capacity in an adult Finnish population: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966
								PloS one 2018
							
						  						
							
								
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								Genetic polymorphisms associated with breast cancer in Malaysian cohort
								Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry 2015
							
						  						
							
								
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								Role of genetic & environment risk factors in the aetiology of colorectal cancer in Malaysia
								The Indian journal of medical research 2014
							
						  						
							
								
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								Association of genetic and non-genetic risk factors with the development of prostate cancer in Malaysian men
								Molecular biology reports 2014
							
						  						
							
								
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								Review on Variants in Genes Associated with Cancer Risk and Red Meat Metabolism
								JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL THERAPEUTICS 2013
							
						  						
							
								
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								Influences of Multiple Genetic Polymorphisms on Ovarian Cancer Risk in Malaysia
								Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers 2013
							
						  						
							
								
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								Laser capture microdissection with genome-wide expression profiling displayed gene expression signatures in endometrioid endometrial cancer
								Cancer investigation 2012
							
						  						
							
								
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								Identification of genetic and non-genetic risk factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a Southeast Asian population
								Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012
							
						  						
							
								
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								COLORECTAL CANCER CHALLENGES IN MALAYSIA: NEED FOR SCREENING AND PREVENTION
								ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES 2011
							
						  					  					 						
							
								
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								DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE FOR PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS AMONG CHILDREN IN MALAYSIA: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
								16th European Meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus (Europneumo) | 23 May 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Use of a custom genotyping array to screen for mendelian forms of obesity: Genetic analysis of a clinical obesity cohort
								DIABETIC MEDICINE | 01 Jan 2023
							
						  						
							
								
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								Pneumococcal infection among children with pneumonia and otitis media in Malaysia
								IMU – University of Southampton Collaborators’ Meeting “Pneumococcal serotype prevalence in Malaysia" | 22 Nov 2022
							
						  					  
										
					
				
				
									 						
							
								
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								Wong Kai Xuan | Master (Research) | 05 Aug 2024 - 30 Dec 2025
								Thesis: Association between Microbiome and Nutritional Status among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Hospital Tuanku Jaafar Seremban, Malaysia
							
						  						
							
								
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								Juan Qin Nee | Undergraduate | 01 Jun 2024 - 31 Aug 2024
								Thesis: The Landscape of COVID-19 Vaccine Infodemic in the Malay Language: An Analysis of Social Media Content
							
						  						
							
								
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								Jean Ann Sau Jing En | Undergraduate | 01 Dec 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
								Thesis: Body composition and measured energy expenditure in relation to dietary intake among regular climbers
							
						  						
							
								
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								Hoomashini a/p Gunasegaran | Master (Mixed Mode) | 04 Sep 2023 - 26 Feb 2024
								Thesis: Investigation On the Relationship Between Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Urinary Antigen Test Among Children in The East-Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
							
						  						
							
								
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								Andrew Tan Chun Hoong | Doctorate | 03 Jul 2023 - 20 Jul 2026
								Thesis: Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children under five years of age during pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) implementation in Malaysia
							
						  						
							
								
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								CHANG XUAN QI | Undergraduate | 12 Jun 2023 - 14 Sep 2023
								Thesis: Identification Of Co-Infection Between Streptococcus Pneumoniae And Haemophilus Influenzae Among Children With Pneumonia Using Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
							
						  						
							
								
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								AZIM HAIKAL BIN MD ROSLAN | Undergraduate | 12 Jun 2023 - 16 Sep 2023
								Thesis: Identification Of Chlamydophila Pneumoniae Among Children with Pneumonia Using Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)
							
						  						
							
								
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								LUM XIN RU | Undergraduate | 12 Jun 2023 - 16 Sep 2023
								Thesis: Co-Infection Status Between Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Bordetella Parapertussis Among Children With Pneumonia Using Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
							
						  						
							
								
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								WONG SIMONE | Undergraduate | 12 Jun 2023 - 16 Sep 2023
								Thesis: Co-Infection Status of Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Legionella Pneumophila Among Children With Pneumonia Using Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
							
						  						
							
								
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								Eileen Eng Jia Lin | Undergraduate | 12 Jun 2023 - 16 Sep 2023
								Thesis: Co-Infection Status of Streptococcus Pneumoniae And Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Among Children With Pneumonia Using Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
							
						  						
							
								
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								LOH JUI SZE | Undergraduate | 01 Jul 2022 - 30 Sep 2022
								Thesis: Identification of human genomic variations related to obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) in Malaysian and Southeastern Asian population
							
						  						
							
								
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								NG WOEI LIN | Undergraduate | 01 Jul 2022 - 30 Sep 2022
								Thesis: Identification of human genomic variations related to obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) in Malaysian and Southeastern Asian population
							
						  						
							
								
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								Michelle Lee Yee Shuen | Master (Research) | 01 Mar 2022 - 10 Apr 2023
								Thesis: Identification of human genomic variations related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and obesity in Malaysian and Southeastern Asian population.
							
						  						
							
								
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								YAP YEW SHEN | Undergraduate | 01 Jul 2021 - 30 Nov 2021
								Thesis: Relationship Between Individual Personality Traits and Use Of Electronic Cigarettes, Waterpipe or Traditional Cigarettes: An Institutional Cross-Sectional Study