Dr. Hazel Quek received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Neurosciences from the University of Queensland in 2010 and 2016 respectively. She was a  Research Assistant at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) from 2011 to 2012. Then, she worked as a Research Assistant at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in 2016. Currently, Dr. Hazel Quek is an Honorary Research Fellow, focusing on drug screening using cellular models of neurodegenerative diseases, specializing in monocyte-derived microglia cells. She is also a Member of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, the Australian Society for Medical Research, and the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI).