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SciMy Interview: Professor Dato’ Dr. Lam Sai Kit
interviewed by Dr. Valerie Soo and Dr. Lee Hooi Ling
Emeritus Prof.
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Dato’ Dr. Lam Sai Kit is a renowned medical virologist whose outstanding research in infectious diseases has earned him many prestigious awards, including the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health from Thailand, a Knighthood of the National Order of Merit by France and the prestigious Merdeka Award 2013 from Malaysia.
Prof. Lam was a central figure in the discovery of Nipah virus in late 1990s, and was instrumental in developing in-house rapid diagnostic techniques to detect dengue virus. His work has resulted in more than 200 articles including those published in top peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science, Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine.
After obtaining his PhD from the Australian National University, Prof.
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Lam joined Universiti Malaya (UM) in 1966 as a lecturer, and has remained in the same university ever since. At present, Prof. Lam ser