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Dr Lin Ong

Name Lin Ong
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Senior Lecturer (Biomedical Science)
Section School of Health, Psychological and Medical Sciences
Office W537
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1860
Extension 1860
Email
Qualifications BBioSc University of Newcastle , BBiomedSc(Hons) University of Newcastle , PhD University of Newcastle
Homepage https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=22mhVrb-rYkC&hl=en
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Biography

Dr Lin Kooi Ong is the Discipline Leader for Biomedical Sciences, leading 25 staff (full time and casual), and the Program Director for Biomedical Sciences, delivering teaching to over 800 students annually across the Health and Medical Sciences programs.

Dr Ong leads the Translational Neurorecovery and Biomarkers Laboratory, where his research focuses on uncovering the pathophysiology of post-stroke secondary neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment, stress biomarkers, developing therapeutic targets to support brain recovery, and rural and remote health services. Dr Ong has over 10 years’ experience with pre-clinical modelling, behavioural and functional assessments, rodent stereotaxic surgery, cell culture, advanced imaging and microscopy, histological analysis, and biochemical assays. He has coordinated and completed multiple human studies examining the impact of stress and stress‑management interventions on brain function in both health and disease, supporting a strong translational research pipeline from bench to bedside.

He was awarded with a PhD in Medical Biochemistry at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2012. His PhD thesis investigated the neurobiological consequences of stress and the regulation of catecholamine. Subsequently, he has been researching and teaching in the field of Neuroscience, Physiology, Medical Biochemistry and Pharmacology. First as a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle (2012-2014) on the role of systematic inflammation on neurodegeneration. Second as a Senior/Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (2015-2019) on translational stroke recovery. Third as a Lecturer in Basic Physiology within the School of Pharmacy and established his independent research group on Translational Neurorecovery at Monash University, Malaysia (2019-2022).

Research Career


  • Central Nervous System ( 320903 )
  • Medical Biochemistry And Metabolomics ( 320500 )
  • Neurosciences ( 320900 )
  • Medical Biochemistry - Proteins And Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics) ( 320506 )
  • Rural Clinical Health ( 320224 )
  • Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences ( 321400 )
  • Medicine ( 390110 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Clinical Sciences ( 320200 )
  • Basic Pharmacology ( 321401 )

Stroke recovery, neurodegeneration, stress biology, rural and remote health services


Australasian Neuroscience Society, International Society for Neurochemistry, Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (Life Member), International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism


-Human Research Ethics Committee, Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service
-Emerging Leaders, International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance
-IBRO Early Career Committee, International Brain Research Organization
-Young Scientists Network, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
-EXCO member, Basic Neuroscience Chapter, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences
-Grant Review Panel of Ideas Grants and investigator Grants, National Health and Medical Research Council, Travel Grant Committee of International Society for Neurochemistry and IBRO Parenthood Grants
-Editorial Board Fellows, Neuroscience


  • Institute for Health (IH)

Teaching


NSC1501 Bioscience for Health Professionals
BIO2218 Concepts in Endocrinology


10 Years


Discipline Leader & Program Director of Biomedical Sciences

Supervision


  • Central Nervous System ( 320903 )
  • Medical Biochemistry And Metabolomics ( 320500 )
  • Neurosciences ( 320900 )
  • Medical Biochemistry - Proteins And Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics) ( 320506 )