Hong Leong Cheah

CHEAH HONG LEONG Nationality: Malaysian I.C. No.:- Date of birth: 14 August 1988 Gender: Male Contacts:- (h/p);-(email) Permanent address: 25, Taman Sepakat, Jalan Batas Paip, 06600 Kuala Kedah. Kedah. Malaysia. Work Experience Online Freelance Translator June 2015 - Present Assistant Research Officer Advanced Medical & Dental Institute (Universiti Sains Malaysia) June 2015 - December 2015 - Research projects: Experimentation and RNA-seq data analysis - Bioinformatics and computational works - Research writing - Laboratory management and inventory Quality Control Microbiologist SM Biomed / SM Pharmaceuticals Sdn. Bhd. April 2014 - May 2015 - Microbial Limit Test (MLT) for pharmaceutical products and raw materials - Laboratory practices compliance to Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) Research Assistant Advanced Medical & Dental Institute (Universiti Sains Malaysia) January 2012 - July 2013 - Research projects: Experimentation and result analysis - Research writing - Laboratory management and inventory Internship Trainee Sime Darby Technology Center Sdn. Bhd. October 2009 - December 2009 Education Master of Science (Molecular Biology) Universiti Sains Malaysia (Bertam, Penang) March 2012 - May 2014 Research title: Screening and characterization of inhibitors for glyoxylate cycle ICL enzyme activity in Candida albicans Bachelor of Science (Hons) Biotechnology Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Kampar, Perak) May 2008 - May 2011 CGPA: 3.2758 Final year project’s title: Molecular characterization of nifH genes within the rhizosphere of Colocasia esculenta Skill Computer Skill Operating system: Microsoft Windows; Linux; Macintosh OS Office software: Microsoft Office; Libre Office; Kingsoft Office Language Skill Language Proficiency Reference 1. English Good MUET (Band 4) 2. Bahasa Malaysia Good SPM (A2) 3. Mandarin Good SPM (B3) Publication and Conference Publication (Journal) Akinwale, P.O., Tang, T.H., Doblin, S. & Cheah, H.L. (2013). Molecular survey of freshwater snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma malayensis in northern Peninsular Malaysia. Continental Journal of Biological Sciences, 6(2), 33-41. Cheah, H.L., Lim, V. & Doblin, S. (2014). Inhibitors of the glyoxylate cycle enzyme ICL1 in Candida albicans for potential use as antifungal agents. PLoS ONE, 9(4): e95951 Tan, J.J., Siti, M.A., Yong, Y.K., Cheah, H.L., Lim, V., Doblin, S. & Bakiah, S. (2014). Tualang honey improves human corneal epithelial progenitor cell migration and cellular resistance to oxidative stress in vitro. PLoS ONE, 9(5): e96800 Conference Tan, K.Y., Cheah, H.L., Chew, C.H. & Choo, Q.C. (2011, March). Prevalence of Proteobacterial sequences in nifH gene pools within the rhizosphere of Colocasia esculenta of ex-tin mining soil. Poster session presented at the 22nd Intervarsity Biochemistry Seminar 2011, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Cheah, H.L., Hoe, C.H., Rozhdestvensky, T.S., Doblin, S. & Tang, T.H. (2012, July). Multiplex PCR assay for detection and differentiation of Vibrio cholerae O1 Classical and O1 El Tor targeting non-protein coding RNA genes. Poster session presented at the National Postgraduate Seminar 2012, Universiti Malaya. Tan, J.J., Siti, M.A., Yong, Y.K., Cheah, H.L., Lim, V., Doblin, S. & Bakiah, S. (2013, November). Tualang Honey improves human corneal epithelial progenitor cell migration and cellular resistance to oxidative stress in vitro. Oral presentation session presented at the 1st National Conference for Cancer Research in conjunction with 5th Regional Conference on Molecular Medicine (RCMM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). On-going Publication Siti, A.A., Cheah, H.L., Ravichantar, N., Gopinath, S.C.B. & Tang, T.H. Evaluation of the Palm PCR G1-12 System: a portable battery-operated PCR thermal cycler. Siti, A.A., Cheah, H.L., Hoe, C.H., Rozhdestvensky, T.S., Doblin, S. & Tang, T.H. Multiplex PCR assay for detection and differentiation of Vibrio cholerae O1 Classical and O1 El Tor targeting non-protein coding RNA genes. Li Pin Lee, Carsten A. Raabe, Hong Leong Cheah, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, Thean-Hock Tang. Bacterial sRNAs in host-pathogens crosstalk. Li Pin Lee, Carsten A. Raabe, Hong Leong Cheah, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, Thean-Hock Tang. Mapping of transcriptional start site and the identification of novel sRNA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.