Associate Professor Dr. Ho Weang Kee

Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham

Dr. Ho Weang Kee is an associate professor in School of Mathematical Sciences at University of Nottingham and a collaborating scientist at Cancer Research Malaysia. She is a statistician by training and her current research focuses on identification of genetic determinants of breast cancer in Asian women, with the aim of building population-specific risk assessment tool that can be used to stratify women according to their likelihood of developing the disease. She was awarded Malaysia’s L’Oreal-UNESCO National Fellowship in 2017 and was recgonised as L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talent in 2018 for her work in breast cancer research.