Dr Choo is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Malaya, where she obtained both her B.Sc. (Hons. Class I) and Ph.D. in Chemistry. She has held postdoctoral and visiting research appointments at the University of Mississippi (USA), National Tsinghua University (Taiwan), the IBM Almaden Research Center (USA), and the Institute for Molecular Science (Japan). Her research focuses on the discovery of bioactive compounds from Malaysia’s ethnomedicinal flora, integrating traditional knowledge with modern drug discovery approaches. She applies multidisciplinary strategies combining phytochemical profiling, biological activity assays, advanced spectroscopic techniques, and computational methods such as molecular docking, pharmacophore modelling, network pharmacology, and DFT calculations. This framework has enabled the identification and mechanistic understanding of lead compounds for infectious diseases, cancer, and neuroinflammation, including potential SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work spans diverse natural product scaffolds, including diterpenoids and manzamine alkaloids. Dr Choo has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and holds an H-index of 24 (Web of Science). She serves as an Editorial Board Member of Biomedicines and Traditional Medicine Research, and is actively engaged in teaching organic and natural product chemistry while mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students.