Prof. Lim is Executive Director of the Department of Clinical Research and Advancement at the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist and former Head of the Diabetes Care Unit, Universiti Malaya (2022-2025). She also holds honorary positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia. 
As a clinician-scientist, Prof. Lim’s major areas of interest are cardiometabolic medicine (epidemiology, molecular, and implementation science).  Prof. Lim sits on the Scientific Work Groups of the American Diabetes Association/European Association for the Study of Diabetes (ADA/EASD) Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative and the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Diabetes Compact. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, including in The Lancet, Nature, Diabetes Care, and Science Bulletin. Prof. Lim has received several awards, including the 2025 Malaysia Scopus Research Star Award – Women in Research Excellence (STEM) Category, Universiti Malaya’s Top Cited 
Researcher 2024, World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025), and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) Albert Renold Fellowship, tenable at the University of Oxford, UK. She is an Editorial Board Member of several Tier 1 Web of Science-indexed journals. She is also the Vice President of Diabetes Malaysia (a country affiliate of the International Diabetes Federation) and the Council Member of the Malaysian Endocrine and Metabolic Society.