Moi Meng Ling

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Moi Meng Ling
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Born
NationalityMalaysian
Alma mater Universiti Putra Malaysia
University of Tsukuba
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences University of TsukubaDoctor of Medicine
Known forDengue and mosquito-borne viral diseases research
AwardsYoung Scientists' Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Sugiura Award, Japanese Society of Virology

Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize, Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) President Prize(Ceremony at Prime Minister's Official Residence (Japan) [1]

Others
Scientific career
Fields Virology
Tropical medicine
Infectious diseases
Institutions WHO
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan)
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
Doctoral advisor Ichiro Kurane  [ ja ]
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 梅敏苓
Simplified Chinese 梅敏苓
Hanyu Pinyin Méi Mǐnlíng
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Mòi Mên-lìn
Jyutping Mui4 Man5 Ling4
Hokkien POJ Mûi Bín-lêng
Tâi-lô Muî Bín-lîng

Sherry Moi Meng Ling is a Malaysian virologist, currently serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. [2] Her research focuses on innate immune system to mosquito-borne virus infection and field epidemiology.

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She is an advisor at the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development advisory board from 2022.

She has previously worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan). She received her B.Sc. (Hon) at University Putra Malaysia, M.Sc. (Medical Sciences) and Ph.D. (Medical Sciences) at Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

She speaks Malay, English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), and Japanese.

Career

Moi was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After graduating from SMK Convent Bukit Nanas, she received her B.Sc. degree at Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2002 with first class honors. Upon receiving a full scholarship offered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, she furthered her graduate studies in Japan.

Having been affected by dengue fever herself, she was inspired to pursue her Ph.D. degree on the immune response to Dengue virus. After receiving her Ph.D. degree from University of Tsukuba in 2010, she continued to pursue her research on dengue as a researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan, from 2010 to 2014. She was part of the research team which was involved in laboratory diagnosis and epidemiological characterization of the first dengue outbreak in Japan for the past 70 years. [3]

In 2015, she won the MEXT Young Scientist Award for her research on the ADE mechanisms during dengue virus infection, and specifically, for pioneering in vitro assays to study immune response during viral infection. [4] She was the only Malaysian who has received the MEXT Young Scientist Award in recent years.

In 2018, she was awarded the Sugiura Award by the Japanese Society of Virology and, Female Researcher Award by the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine, for her pioneering research on developing in vitro and animal models for dengue virus infection and field epidemiology. [5] [6]

Between 2016 and 2018, she organized and conducted programs with the World Health Organization (WHO) and led field epidemiological studies with collaborators in Vietnam, which was key in understanding the extent of Zika epidemic in the region. The findings led to important feedback to WHO and local health authorities for the developing control measures. [7] [8] [9] [10] In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize (AMED President Prize), in the presence of Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga, for her epidemiological work and research on immunity against mosquito-borne viral diseases in 2020. [11] [12] She was the first foreigner in Japan to receive the award. [13] [14] [15]

Moi was an associate professor at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University between 2015 and 2020. She became a full professor in 2020, and remains at the same institute, and continues to work on molecular and epidemiological aspects of emerging and re-emerging viral diseases and the development of vaccines and therapeutics. [16] [17]

She has served as the deputy director, WHO Collaboration Center for Research & Reference of Tropical Viral Diseases. [18] As a technical expert in the WHO Reference Laboratories Providing Confirmatory Testing for COVID-19 network, she also contributes to developing laboratory guidelines for COVID-19 diagnosis. [19] [20] She is currently a professor at School of International Health, the University of Tokyo.

List of awards and honors

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