Rate My Professor Lor Huai

Lor Huai Chong is a lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Monash University Malaysia, having joined the institution in September 2021. She holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Biomedical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, awarded in 2014, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, completed in 2019. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'Development of in vitro models to predict cutaneous drug reactions,' resulted in several publications in Lab on a Chip, a leading Q1 journal in the top 10%. Prior to her current role, Chong conducted two years of postdoctoral research at the Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Her academic journey was supported by prestigious awards, including the National University of Singapore Research Scholarship, University Vice-Chancellor Award from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Best of the Best Award in the Faculty’s Biosciences and Medical Engineering Student Conference, and the JPA scholarship from Malaysia.

Chong's research centers on developing multi-scale tissue models and organ-on-chip platforms to mimic complex biological interactions and translate them into scalable systems for disease modeling, drug testing, and cancer research. As Primary Chief Investigator, she leads projects such as the Development of a 3D Metastatic Breast Cancer-on-Chip Model for Evaluating Liposome-Based Drug Delivery Systems (2023–2025), Organ-on-Chip: A Potential Biophysical Modeling Tool to Modulate Cancer Metastasis Targeted-Drug Development (2022–2026), and Development of an Immunoassay-on-a-Chip for Evaluating T-Cell and NK-Cell Infiltration in Cancer Immunotherapy (2025–2027). Key publications include 'Integration of a microfluidic multicellular coculture array with machine learning analysis to predict adverse cutaneous drug reactions' (Lab on a Chip, 2022), 'A liver-immune coculture array for predicting systemic drug-induced skin sensitization' (Lab on a Chip, 2018), 'Self-aligning Tetris-Like (TILE) modular microfluidic platform for mimicking multi-organ interactions' (Lab on a Chip, 2019), and 'A pump-free microfluidic 3D perfusion platform for the efficient differentiation of human hepatocyte-like cells' (Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2017). She coordinates the teaching unit PHR1031 How The Body Works, supervises PhD students on organ-on-chip applications in cancer metastasis and gut microbiota-colorectal cancer interactions, and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being.