Dr Cheung has published 55 original or review articles in the top-ranked journals including Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Cancer, Science Translational Medicine, Oncogene and Cancer Research. Her work has been cited 2062 times, and has an h-index of 27. She has also demonstrated a strong commitment to research supervision and mentoring. Since 2004, she has supervised/mentored 38 Honours, ILP and PhD students in the field of childhood cancer. Dr Cheung directs and drives the research in all three themes in the Embryonal Cancer Therapy and Prevention Group: identification of oncogenic proteins in MYC-driven cancers; developing inhibitors for MYC oncoproteins; and developing childhood cancer prevention strategies.
My Awards
1. Australia Postgraduate Research Award, 1990-1992
2. Early Career Research Awards, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, 2005
3. Early Career Development fellowship Award, Cancer Institute NSW, 2007
4. The Institute Award for outstanding service, Children’s Cancer Institute Australia, 2010
5. Goldstar Award for a research project, UNSW Sydney, 2016
6. Travel grant, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Tongji University, China. 2017.
My Research Activities
Current Research Projects:
1. Developing inhibitors for MYC oncoproteins.
2. Identification of co-factors for MYCN oncoprotein.
3. Establishing novel combination therapies of epigenetic drugs for cancer treatment.
4. Developing childhood cancer prevention strategies.