Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
Faculty of Science
About
Dr Poh obtained her MChem from the University of Durham, United Kingdom in 2018. In 2019, she received the Chancellor’s Scholarship from the University of Brunei Darussalam and undertook a DPhil in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford under the guidance of Professor Benjamin Davis FRS FMedSci and Professor Véronique Gouverneur FRS. Her doctoral research focused on developing novel chemical methods for precise post‑translational protein editing (including protein radiolabelling) to enable functional studies of proteins in their biological context.
Dr Poh pursued her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford. She also joined the Rosalind Franklin Institute as a visiting Associate Investigator. In mid-2025, she returned to Brunei to take up a lectureship at the University of Brunei Darussalam, while also continuing research at Oxford and the Franklin. Her research lies at the interface of chemistry and biology, with a focus on developing new chemistries to edit complex (bio)molecules in order to probe their functions and mechanisms in biology and disease for applications in medicine and drug development.
Research Interests
- Chemical biology
- Protein chemistry
- Radiochemistry for positron emission tomography (PET)
- Photochemistry
Relevant Links
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=tBB7P1EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8515-1857
Bluesky: @adelinepoh.bsky.social
Contact
Email: adeline.poh@ubd.edu.bn / adeline.poh@pharm.ox.ac.uk / adeline.poh@rfi.ac.uk
Contact
Email: adeline.poh@ubd.edu.bn