Yoong Li-Foong

Yoong Li-Foong is the Assistant Country Manager and Representative Director of MiRXES Japan. Li-Foong led the setting up of MiRXES subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan, where she now heads the business development and market expansion, as well as overseeing the overall operations.

She has more than 13 years of research experience in USA and Japan, including genetics, development biology and cellular signaling, and has published eight papers. Prior to joining MiRXES, Li-Foong has accumulated more than 10 years of research experience in Japan’s largest national research institute, RIKEN, where she has also received the prestigious international fellowship award from Human Frontier Science Program. She is passionate about bringing MiRXES’s innovative disease early detection solutions, from lab to user, so that more people can be benefited from a better and earlier diagnosis.

Li-Foong has a PhD in Biochemistry from the National University of Singapore.