Dr Chai who is holding her award, encourages young girls to dream and work hard for it.
DR Chai Lay Ching, a food microbiologist from Universiti Malaya’s (UM) Faculty of Science, has been named as one of the recipients of the L’Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science Award.
This is for her research in developing a real-time method to detect dangerous bacteria causing foodborne diseases in raw chicken.
