Cheong Yuet Meng

Biography

Presently Dr. Cheong is the Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Investigation Unit of Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia. She started her career with the Malaysian Ministry of Health at the Institute of Medical Research and worked there for 16 years. Her main areas of research were in Clinical Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, and she has published over 60 papers in peer reviewed journals. She was the Head of the Bacteriology Division from 1985 to 1994 and also the Dean of the IMR Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Microbiology (1990-1994) that was held annually under the aegis of the South East Asia Ministers' of Education & Tropical Medicine Program (SEAMEO-TropMed). Subsequently she joined Pfizer, a leading Pharmaceutical R&D company initially as the Medical Director of Pfizer Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei and was later promoted to be the Regional Director of Clinical Operations for Asia. During her 13 years in the industry she has developed and introduced a number of Clinical Trials to Asia and is well versed in the operational, regulatory and ethical aspects of conducting clinical trials in various therapeutic areas like, infectious diseases, cardiology, psychiatry, neurology, erectile dysfunction, and oncology. She has also produced a handbook on Guide to Clinical Trials in Asia for Pfizer Global Research. She was actively involved in training investigators in Good Clinical Practice in the Asia region and has participated and lectured in a GCP workshop conducted by the US FDA in Beijing, 2005. She continued her work in clinical research in Monash University Sunway Campus and has received 2 PVC Awards for Excellence in Administration, one for organizing the first GCP workshop in Monash and another for setting up a Clinical Research Unit in the Medical School.

Research Interest

 Genomics