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Sherry Moi Meng Ling is a Malaysian virologist, currently serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, the
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. Her research focuses on
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to mosquito-borne virus infection and field epidemiology. She is an advisor at the
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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
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, M.Sc. (Medical Sciences) and Ph.D. (Medical Sciences) at Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences,
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. She speaks Malay,
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Career

Moi was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After graduating from SMK
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, she received her B.Sc. degree at
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in 2002 with first class honors. Upon receiving a full scholarship offered by the
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(MEXT), Japan, she furthered her graduate studies in Japan. Having been affected by
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herself, she was inspired to pursue her Ph.D. degree on the immune response to
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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. In 2015, she won the
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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. 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. Between 2016 and 2018, she organized and conducted programs with the
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(WHO) and led field epidemiological studies with collaborators in
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, which was key in understanding the extent of
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epidemic in the region. The findings led to important feedback to WHO and local health authorities for the developing control measures. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize (
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President Prize), in the presence of Prime Minister of Japan
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, for her epidemiological work and research on immunity against mosquito-borne viral diseases in 2020. She was the first foreigner in Japan to receive the award. 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. She has served as the deputy director, WHO Collaboration Center for Research & Reference of Tropical Viral Diseases. As a technical expert in the WHO Reference Laboratories Providing Confirmatory Testing for
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network, she also contributes to developing laboratory guidelines for COVID-19 diagnosis. She is currently a professor at School of International Health, the University of Tokyo.


List of awards and honors

*Dean's Award for Excellent Research, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences,
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(2010) * Best Poster Award, Malaysia-Japan Academic Conference (2013) *Best Talk Award, Science Cafe, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan (2014) *Ishibashi Lecture, International Medical Society of Japan (2014) * International Travel Award, Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation (2014) * Grants for Female Researchers, MSD Life Science Foundation (2015) * Young Scientists' Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (a first for Nagasaki University)(2016) * Best Research Award, Grants for Female Researchers, MSD Life Science Foundation (a first for Nagasaki University, first foreigner to receive the award)(2016) * Best Paper Award, Doumonkai, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University (2018) * Female Researcher Award,
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(2018) * Sugiura Award, Japanese Society of Virology (a first for Nagasaki University, first foreigner to receive the award)(2018) * Female Researcher Award, Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine (2019) * Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize,
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(AMED) President Prize (a first for Nagasaki University, first foreigner to receive the award)(2020)


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Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan

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