Shin Jie Yong

Shin Jie Yong has a diverse work experience in scientific and medical writing. They have worked as a freelance science and scientific writing editor and advisor for Microbial Instincts and various clients. They have also served as an independent researcher at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH), focusing on long-COVID and vaccine safety, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Shin Jie Yong has worked as a content writer for Medium, where they primarily wrote about COVID-19 and vaccine safety, providing scientifically reliable information to combat misinformation. They also published their work on NewsBreak, adapting it to shorter news formats. Additionally, Shin Jie Yong has freelanced as a medical writer for clinics, hospitals, biotech companies, and start-ups, covering topics such as cancer, surgery, neuroscience, sleep physiology, virology, immunology, and nutrition. They also gained research experience as a research assistant intern at Sunway University.

Shin Jie Yong has a strong educational background in the field of neurobiology and neuroscience. From 2020 to 2022, they pursued a Master of Science degree (by research) in Neurobiology and Neurosciences at both Lancaster University and Sunway University. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, they completed a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Biology with Psychology, again at both Lancaster University and Sunway University. In 2016, they attended Sunway College where they obtained an Australian Matriculation degree in Science.

In addition to their degrees, Shin Jie Yong has obtained several certifications. In 2019, they completed the Coursera course "Comparing Genes, Proteins, and Genomes (Bioinformatics III)," as well as the course "Computational Neuroscience." In the same year, they also obtained a certification in "Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)" and "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)" from Coursera.