Research Personality: Professor Dr. Sim Kui Hian

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The man at the heart of research

Professor Dr. Sim Kui Hian graduated with an MBBS from Monash University and completed his cardiology fellowship at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Currently, he holds numerous national and international professional positions including President of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology, President of Malaysia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, Board Member of the World Heart Federation, Visiting Senior Consultant Cardiologist at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) Heart Centre, Advisor of Clinical Research Centre (CRC) SGH, and was the immediate Past President of the National Heart Association of Malaysia. He is also a member of the Hospital Visitor Board of SGH and a board member of Clinical Research Malaysia (CRM).

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Can the Nervous System Be Hacked?

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One morning in May 1998, Kevin Tracey converted a room in his lab at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., into a makeshift operating theater and then prepped his patient — a rat — for surgery. A neurosurgeon, and also Feinstein Institute’s president, Tracey had spent more than a decade searching for a link between nerves and the immune system. His work led him to hypothesize that stimulating the vagus nerve with electricity would alleviate harmful inflammation. “The vagus nerve is behind the artery where you feel your pulse,” he told me recently, pressing his right index finger to his neck.

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