She is believed to have been cycling when a tipper lorry crashed into her at the junction of St Clement’s Street and The Plain in Oxford. She was 36.

Wong was born in Malaysia in 1986 and relocated to London in 1991 with her family.

In 2005, she moved to Oxford to study biochemistry and completed a DPhil at Oxford University’s clinical pharmacology department.

She was recently conducting research on human immune response to Covid-19 and cancer.

Her family described her as “selfless and caring”.

“She was the light of our family and we are devastated to lose her so young when she had so many dreams for herself and her children,” Wong’s husband, identified as James Felce, was quoted as saying to the BBC.

“I am lost without her warm presence but she will live on through the love that she gave us and to so many others.”

Wong leaves behind her husband and two children, aged three and five.

On Thursday, Robert Whiting, 39, appeared at the Oxford magistrates’ court to be charged with causing death by reckless driving while under the influence of drugs.

He was remanded in custody and will appear at the Oxford Crown Court on March 28.