JPIAMR 13th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: National University of Malaysia (UKM)
• Country: Malaysia (MY)

Research area

• Scientific area(s):
  1. Understand the impact of interventions on development and transmission of AMR
  2. Design, implement, evaluate, and compare innovative interventions to control the development and transmission of AMR
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Keywords:

  LMIC; Southeast Asia; MRSA; mechanism of resistance next-generation genome surveillance and susceptibility testing

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I have experience in molecular & genome surveillance, antibiotic susceptibility testing and molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial pathogens, especially MRSAs. I have been working with clinical microbiologists, infectious diseases specialists, infection control and AMS team in our tertiary hospital (Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) to establish genotyping and genome surveillance for MRSAs. I have contacts with the local health system and knowledge on workflows of working in LMICs.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Me and my research partners provide an LMIC hospital setting for the study of interventions and impact of AMR in humans. In addition, colleagues in the same university will be able to help in animal health and environmental AMR microbiology. We would like to join a study which requires the above study setting, to further understand AMR dynamics and its transmission prevention in LMIC hospitals. Due to the location of our institution in Malaysia, an LMIC in Southeast Asia, the project we join will be eligible for funding from ICARS and IDRC.

Hui-min Neoh

• Organisation: National University of Malaysia (UKM)
• Position: Associate Professor and Senior Fellow
• E-mail: hui-min@ppukm.ukm.edu.my
• Web: www.ukm.my/umbi/assoc-prof-dr-neoh-hui-min/