Senior Professor Dr. Chye Mee Len completed her PhD on a Commonwealth Scholarship at the University of Melbourne and received postdoctoral training in Plant Molecular Biology at the Rockefeller University (New York) and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (Singapore). Her research focuses on elucidating the function of plant acyl-CoA-binding proteins (ACBPs) which bind and transport acyl-CoA esters. Her work revealed that plant ACBPs, classified into 4 classes in each of Arabidopsis, rice, Brassica napus and soybean, participate in development as well as stress responses arising from drought, salinity, low temperature and pathogens. Her team demonstrated that ACBPs work with protein partners in mediating development and stress tolerance, making ACBPs applicable for agriculture.  She is the "Tan Sri Dato' Philip Kuok Professorial Chair in Agricultural Science" at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar, Malaysia.