Monica Suet Ying Ng

Dr Monica Ng is a staff specialist nephrologist and clinician scientist at Metro North Kidney Health Service where she leads the Research Portfolio and Clinical Trials Unit. Her other appointments include Clinician Scientist in the Cardiac Drug Discovery laboratory at QIMR Berghofer and, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Theme Co-lead of Centre for Cardiovascular Health and Research at University of Queensland.

She completed physician training at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Her PhD studies on the toxicity of prolonged blood product storage were completed concurrently whilst completing medical school and physician training (2013-2019). Since 2019, Dr Ng has channelled her laboratory and clinical research skills to improve information available for patient counselling, evaluate druggable targets for kidney disease and apply current-edge technologies (e.g. spatial transcriptomics, nanoparticle flow cytometry) for biomarker discovery in nephrology. These goals are achieved using a range of methodologies including registry data analysis, data linkage, extracellular vesicle analysis and cell culture, and clinical trial techniques.

Dr Ng contributes expertise to national and international steering committees as: Deputy Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology Education and Training Committee, Asia-Pacific Co-Chair of the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles’ Genitourinary Special Interest Group and Member of Australasian Kidney Trials Network Chronic Kidney Disease-Glomerular Disease Working Group. In 2026, she was appointed to the American Society of Nephrology Editorial Board.