Prof. Ts. Dr. Cheah Shiau Chuen

Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences,

UCSI University,

Malaysia.

 

 

Prof. Ts. Dr Cheah Shiau-Chuen is a cancer biologist who have placed great interest in Cancer Biology and its precision medicine.  Her interest mainly focusses on understanding the cancer physiology and targeted treatment, which include cancer stem cell in tumour microenvironment and cancer nanoparticles drug delivery. Dr Cheah has published 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and her Scopus H-index is 18. In her profession, she serves as a member of the European Association of Cancer Research and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

 

Dr Cheah’s interest in Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), one of the most aggressive head and neck cancers and frequently metastasises to distant lymph nodes and organs. NPC is a unique endemic to Southeast Asia, hence not adequately studied by most of the large-scale international cancer initiatives. The collective rationales hence urge the need to comprehensively investigate of the fundamental mechanism of metastatic NPC in this country. She is currently working with numerous groups of cancer scientists national and abroad, attempting to map the genomic and epigenomic landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. 

 

As a cancer biologist, Dr Cheah hopes that one day in the near future she would be able to make significant contributions to the science through uncovering the targeted therapy specifically on cancer stem cell and tumour microenvironment and that the discoveries could be applied to the bedsides eventually.