Prof. Dr. Lai-Meng Looi is a distinguished Professor at the Department of Pathology, University of Malaya (UM). She holds a concurrent appointment as a senior consultant histopathologist at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). She studied medicine as a Malaysian Federal Scholar at the University of Singapore (1970–1975), where she was a medalist in Pathology and Social Medicine, and won King Edward VII Hall awards for literary works, art forms, and poetry. She trained in surgical pathology at UM, Royal Postgraduate Medical School (UK), and Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Boston, USA, and defended her research doctorate (on amyloidosis) at UM. In 2010, she was honored as an RCPA Distinguished Fellow and Inaugural National Distinguished Professor (Professor Ulung Negara). She was named in Stanford University’s list of the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022. Additionally, she is a Foundation Fellow and Academician of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and has served as Chief Censor and Scribe of the Academy of Medicine Malaysia. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, mainly on amyloidosis, nephropathology, and oncopathology, and is devoted to promoting research and an ethical culture among researchers.