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Kong Kin Weng is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Molecular Medicine. He obtained his BSc in Nutrition and Community Health and MSc in Nutritional Sciences from Universiti Putra Malaysia. He then received his PhD in Molecular Medicine from Universiti Malaya. Kong is an active researcher and passionate about the research on underutilised crops and food processing by-products as sources of medicinal and functional foods. His research area covers food analysis, food chemistry, nutritional biochemistry, nutrigenomics, traditional medicine and natural products. During his tenure, he received a travel award for the Japan Medical Innovation Programme (2017) established by Kyushu University that sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency and as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College sponsored by International Joint Research and Academic Exchanges (One Belt, One Road Project) (2019). He was the Specially-invited Expert (2017-2020) and is the Research Consultant (2019-Present) of Agro-food Science and Technology Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Kong is actively involved in many international journals, he is the Review Editor of Frontiers in Nutrition (Since 2017) and was the Lead Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Chemistry (Research topic: Phytochemical and nutritional properties of underutilised plants, 2017-2018), Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology (Research topic: Discovery of novel plant-derived compounds with antibacterial actions against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, 2018-2019) and Editorial Board Member of Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science (2017-2021). Kong is an eminent reviewer for many journals, his contribution was recognised by receiving the Publons Peer Review Awards as “Top 1% peer reviewers in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 2017” and “Top 1% of Reviewer in Agricultural Sciences, 2018”. Kong has acted as an external examiner of PhD/MSc theses from different universities. His research on medicinal and functional foods has been published in many reputable peer-reviewed journals as well as book, chapters and patent.