Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Weng Kung PENG
Citation names
- Weng Kung, PENG
- PENG, Weng Kung
- W.K. Peng
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5615-704C-D108
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7984-9319
Email addresses
- wkpeng79@hotmail.com (Personal)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+351) 919792968 (Personal)
- Telephone
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- (+351) 253140112 Ext.: 2419 (Professional)
Addresses
- Avenida Mestre Jose Veiga, 4715-330, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering - Medical Engineering
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2005/09/01 - 2008/08/02
Concluded
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Faculty of Engineering Science (Doktori fokozat (PhD))
Major in Engineering Science
Osaka Daigaku - Minoh Campus, Japan
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/11/22 - Current | Principal Investigator (Research) | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal |
2015/12/01 - 2017/08/31 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
2009/09/01 - 2015/11/30 | Researcher (Research) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States |
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/11/01 - 2022/03/31 | Startup Grant INL
Principal investigator
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Ongoing
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Towards Personalized Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Principal investigator
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Concluded
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2017/04/01 - 2018/03/31 | Towards Point of Care Technology for Trauma Induced Coagulopathy with portable NMR devices
S000001
Principal investigator
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Nanyang Technological University
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2011/12/31 | MIT Technology Spin Off Award
BIO-ING000057
Principal investigator
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2009/01/01 - 2011/12/31 | Massachusetts institute Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship
S000001
Principal investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2020/12/16 | Featured in The Sun Daily - ´Molecular fingerprint milestones.´ | The Sun Daily |
2020/11/25 | Featured in myDiabetes | my Diabetes |
2020/10/08 | INL researchers discover new insights into diabetes | INL Website |
2020/09/28 | INL research team develop QR-code for blood | INL Website |
2020/09/17 | https://www.news.inl.int/blog/inl-researchers-discover-new-insights-into-diabetes | INL Website |
2014/11/18 | List of the Top 100 Global Thinkers Making A Difference In 2014 | CEO World Biz |
2014/11/18 | Five Locals Make Foreign Policy’s ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’ List. | Boston Magazine |
2014/11/18 | Foreign Policy: A World Disrupted: For Using Magnets Beat Malaria. | Foreign Policy |
2014/11/18 | Cleveland.com: CWRU malaria researcher named Foreign Policy leading global thinker. | Cleveland.com |
2014/10/28 | Passport Health USA: New Device to Diagnose Malaria in Minutes. | Passport Health USA |
2014/09/12 | The Guardian: Breakthrough in rapid diagnostics: using magnets to test for malaria. | The Guardian |
2014/09/09 | Lab Online: Rapid malaria detection with just a drop of blood. | Lab Online |
2014/09/02 | Research Sea: Low-cost field detection system can detect malaria infection within minutes with just a drop of blood. | Research Sea |
2014/09/02 | The Strait Times: New test fast-tracks diagnosis for malaria. | The Strait Times |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2015/06/15 - Current | Scientific Malaysian Magazine: Outstanding Global Impact Malaysian Scientist | Outstanding Global Impact Malaysian Scientist |
2020/09/29 - 2020/09/29 | In RTP 1 Bom Dia Portugal In RTP Online | 29-09-2020 | Interviewed in a Radioshow |
Distinctions
Award
2014 | 100 Leading Global Thinker
Foreign Policy, United States
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2009 | SMART MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
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2003 | Japanese Government Schloar
Monbu Kagakusho, Japan
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Title
2017 | China 1000 Youth Talents
Chinese Academy of Governance, China
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Other distinction
2020 | Highly cited article by Altmetric (11th Feb 2020)
Almetric , United Kingdom
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