Breast Cancer Research Team
Professor Dr Teo Soo Hwang, PhD, Chief Executive
Professor Teo obtained a First Class Honours Degree at the University of Cambridge in 1992, where she was supported by Yayasan Sime Darby - Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship. In the next 3 years, she completed her PhD with Professor Dame Jean Thomas at the Department of Biochemistry where she studied proteins that were involved in regulating the chromatic structure and transcription, supported by the Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship. Following her PhD, Professor Teo was a Cancer Research Campaign Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Stephen P Jackson, where she worked on how cells respond to DNA damage (and how this process can play a key role in developing new therapies for cancer). In 1998, Professor Teo won the prestigious Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship to continue her work at the University of Cambridge. Together with Tan Sri Tunku Ahmad Yahaya, she started working on plans to establish CARIF in 1997 and returned to Malaysia in January 2001 to lead this first non-profit cancer research laboratory. Professor Teo currently leads CARIF by having oversight of the strategic and scientific directions of CARIF and leads a team of geneticists to conduct research to identify genes that cause breast cancer in order to find better ways of preventing and treating breast cancer.
Ms Yoon Sook-Yee, MA, Associate Genetic Counsellor
Ms Maheswari Jaganathan, RN, SCM
Mr Peter Kang, MA
Ms Kavitta Sivanandan, MPhil
Ms Kang In Nee, MSc
Ms Norhashimah Hassan, Msc
Ms Hanis Nazihah binti Hasmad, MRes
Ms. Sharifah Mariam Abu Bakar Almohdzar, Msc
Ms Phuah Sze Yee, BBioMed.Sc
Ms Shivaani Mariapun, BSc
Ms Soo Sian Siu, BSc
