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