Dr. Alson Chng Yong Sheng

Lecturer

PhD

Email: yongsheng.chng@tum-asia.edu.sg

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Alson Chng completed his studies in Chemistry with a specialisation in Medicinal Chemistry and a minor in Forensic Science in 2015 at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Afterwards, he pursued his postgraduate degree with the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) in NUS, focusing on Medicinal Organic Chemistry, under the supervision of A/P Lam Yulin and A/P Yip Wai Cheong, George, where he received his Doctoral degree in Chemistry in 2020.  The topic of his Ph.D thesis was “Chondroitin Sulfate-C Disaccharides and Tetrasaccharide in Wound Healing and Cancer”, which focused on the optimization, synthesis and characterisation of natural products and testing its effects as a potential drug on wound healing and cancer. In 2020, Dr. Alson Chng joined TUM Asia as Assistant Head of Faculty (Chemistry) and Project Liaison and oversees the academic operations of two Chemistry degree programmes.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Medicinal chemistry and technology
• Natural product synthesis
• Drug synthesis methodology and optimization
• Organic chemical synthesis
• Catalytic compounds synthesis
• Green chemistry