Malaysian medical physicist, Professor Dr Ng Kwan Hoong, has just won the Marie-Sklowdowska Curie Award for his work in improving early detection of breast cancer by using artificial intelligence in computer-aided diagnosis.
Prof Ng is part of University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine, and will travel to Prague in early June to receive the honors at the World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. The Curie Award is given out by the England-based International Organization for Medical Physics.
Incredibly, he is the first scientist from a developing nation to receive the award, and says that having his work recognized by the international medical community means a lot for a field that is still in its nascent phase in this part of the world.
Two decades ago, he founded University of Malaya’s Medical Physics Master’s program, making it the only medical physics academic program outside of the UK to be accredited by the United Kingdom’s Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine board. He calls it his proudest achievement.
Malaysia could not be prouder to have a leading medical scientist doing such incredible things to save the lives of others. Hats off to you, sir.
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