Theam Soon Antibody Research Group

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Theam Soon obtained his degree in Resource Chemistry from UNIMAS, Malaysia before continuing his postgraduate studies in Pharmaceutical Technology at USM. His doctoral thesis on antibody phage display was conducted at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics where he graduated with a doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from Freie Universitat Berlin. He returned to work at INFORMM, USM where he served as an academic staff and group leader. Theam Soon is currently heading a research group on Antibody Development and Design. He is working on the generation of new human antibody libraries with an emphasis on infectious diseases. His work includes development of human antibodies for infectious disease research, diagnostics and therapy. Another field of work is the application of DNA structures for DNA sensing applications in diseases.

He was a receipient of the International Society of Infectious Diseases Research Grant for early career researchers. He currently serves as an editorial board member on Communications Biology and Molecular Biotechnology. He is also an Associate Editorial Board Member for Protein and Peptide Letters. He has edited several books and special topics in journals on antibody phage display technology. He is also active in industrial collaboration as well as academic research with projects related to antibody generation and modification.