Dr. Aleya Marzuki and Team Wins People’s Choice Award at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Singapore

Amazing achievement from our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Aleya Marzuki and her team from Sunway University’s Ageing, Health and Well-being Center in winning the People’s Choice Award at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Singapore recently.

The object of their presentation was the AGEWELL project: An ongoing effort in building an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse database of neuroimaging (i.e. structural brain MRIs), electrophysiological, biological, cognitive, and socioeconomic data from older Malaysian adults living in the larger Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area. This unique dataset, focused on mental health and neuroscience, will enable researchers to draw important inferences about healthy ageing in an urban Southeast Asian population. Thanks to the team’s hard work, they have managed to enrol over 300 participants so far and are recruiting and testing more participants every week.

Congratulations for this award, that results from a large collective effort: Dr. Aleya Marzuki, Chan Jee Kei, Arjun Thanaraju, Samira Vafa, Yap Jie (Zacchary), Eugene Lim, Nick Kean Wong, Wei Zern Yip, Jonathan Z. Ong, Annette Arokiaraj, Dexter Shee, Vishaal Nair, Chan Xiou Wen (Cylee), Shu Yi Ang, Prof Datin Dr Chia Yook Chin, Prof. Tin Tin Su, Prof. Rozainee Khairudin , Jactty Chew, Lim Wei Ling, Khushi Todi, Thaanushaa Pillay Ravi and many other team members. This research is funded by the Long-term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) of the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, and by Sunway University.