Rate My Professor Yong Eu Leong

Professor Yong Eu Leong is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He holds the qualifications MBBS (Singapore), MRCOG, and PhD. He previously served as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 2008 to 2019 and currently serves as Head of Division and Emeritus Consultant in the Division of Benign Gynaecology at the National University Hospital, as well as Emeritus Consultant in the Division of Gynaecologic Oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore.

With more than 25 years of practice in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Professor Yong specialises in reproductive endocrinology, subfertility, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. His research has contributed to understanding androgen receptor mutations and polymorphisms in relation to sexual reversal and male subfertility. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, patents, and abstracts, with publications in high-impact journals including Lancet, Nature, Science, PNAS, EMBO, and JAMA. He leads the Consortium for Botanical Drug Development, focusing on the development of herbal-origin drugs to pharmaceutical standards. Among his honors are the Ministerial Citation for outstanding contribution to research on the genetics of human fertility from the National Science and Technology Board in 1999, the Clinician-Scientist Investigator Award from the Singapore Biomedical Research Council in 2005, and the National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award in 2020. He is recognised as one of Singapore’s leading clinician scientists.