LESLIE THAN THIAN LUNG
BSc, PhD
		Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
		leslie@upm.edu.my

Education and work history

Dr. Than specialises in Medical Mycology. Currently, he serves as the coordinator of Mycology Lab and Medical Microbiology Culture Collection (MMCC) in his department. He is a Committee Member in the Institutional Biosafety and Biosecurity Committee (IBBC) UPM. His main research interests include fungal pathogenesis of Candida glabrata particularly looking into its metabolic flexibility; he is also into development of fungal diagnostics. In addition, he is very active in probiotics and leptospirosis research. He has published more than 50 research articles in high-impact journals and holds several intellectual properties. He secured many competitive research grants namely e-Science Fund, FRGS, LRGS (as a subproject leader) and PRGS. He serves an Academic Editor (Microbiology) in Biomed Research International journal. He is the Honorary Treasurer for the Malaysian Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria (MSLAB) and a member of International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) and American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

Orchid ID	:	orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-4638
Scopus ID	:	57204624974
Google Scholar ID	:	Leslie Than

Updated:: 03/10/2023 [farahdeena]