Sit Kim Ping

Sit Kim Ping is a Singaporean biochemist and an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore.{{cite web | url=https://bch.nus.edu.sg/acad.htm | title=Academic Staff - Biochemistry, NUS Medicine}} She was the Head of the Department of Biochemistry (part of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) from 1996 to 2000.{{cite web | url=http://annals.edu.sg/pdf/34VolNo6200506/V34N6p79C.pdf | title=Teaching Biochemistry to Medical Students in Singapore – From Organic Chemistry to Problem-based Learning}}

Early life

Sit was born in 1941 and attended Tanjong Katong Girls' School.{{cite web | url=https://www.asianscientist.com/2016/04/features/sg50-pioneer-sit-kim-ping-tea-mitochondria/ | title=Tea and Mitochondria| date=2016-04-27}} She studied science at the National University of Singapore and obtained first-class honours when she graduated top of her class. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry from McGill University.{{cite web | url=http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/administrative-policies/university-statutes-and-regulations/list-of-emeritus-professors.html | title=List of Emeritus Professors}}

National University of Singapore

Sit was instrumental in the development of the New Life Science Undergraduate Curriculum, and was awarded the Emeritus Professorship in 2008.{{cite web | url=http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/ke/0805/articles/pg02.php | title=Newshub - NUS' News Portal}}

Research

Sit studied detoxification, namely the process of conjugation by which metabolic by-products are made soluble prior to excretion.{{cite journal

|last1= Mok

|first1= J.S.L.

|last2= Hutchinson

|first2= J.S.

|year= 1990

|title= Brain phenolsulfotransferase (PST) activity in spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats.

|journal= Biogenic Amines

|volume= 7

|issue= 5

|pages= 475–481

|url=http://repository.um.edu.my/14258/1/Biogenic%20Amines%201990.pdf

|access-date= 2018-10-09}} She also studied metabolism within cancer cells and found aerobic respiration within mitochondria in cancer cells, which contradicts the Warburg hypothesis.{{cite journal

|last1= Lim

|first1= H.Y.

|last2= Yip

|first2= Y.M.

|year= 2015

|title= Metabolic signatures of renal cell carcinoma.

|journal= Biochem Biophys Res Commun

|volume= 460

|issue= 4

|pages= 938–43

|doi= 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.03.130

|pmid= 25839656