Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize 2017 – About the Winner (Professor LING Tau Chuan)
Tau Chuan Ling
Affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya
Research title for the award: Recovery of biotechnological products using aqueous two phase systems
Professor Ling Tau Chuan received his doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2002. He has been serving as a Professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya since 2011. Professor Ling is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Current Biochemical Engineering.
He has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of downstream processing and bio-process engineering. He is interested in bioseparation especially protein recovery from enzymes, microalgae, and food. His current research mainly focuses on clean energy, green chemistry, cultivation of algae in wastewater for biodiesel production, bioprospecting microalgae for useful proteins. To date, he has published more than 150 international peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 80 conference papers.
[Message as a prize winner]
It is a remarkable honor for me to be awarded the 2017 Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan (SBJ). I thank the SBJ for the tremendous honor. I will continue to work closely with SBJ for advance development of international collaboration between Malaysia and Japan.
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