Sze Wei Leong received his PhD in medicinal chemistry from Univeristi Putra Malaysia in 2014, for which he was awarded the National Science Fellowship (NSF) Scholarship from the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MoSTI). Upon completion of his PhD, he was appointed as an assistant researcher in natural product chemistry at the Laboratory of Natural Products, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia. In 2017, he was appointed as a post-doctoral fellow in cancer pharmacology at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. His doctoral and post-doctoral experiences have equipped him with knowledge and techniques in medicinal chemistry, natural product chemistry, and cancer pharmacology.  His research is now focusing on small molecule-based drug discovery, particularly in the search of synthetic multi-functional anti-cancer drugs.