{"id":1809,"date":"2022-09-29T12:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/dbmi\/?page_id=1809"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:06:02","slug":"kenneth-ban","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/dbmi\/about-us\/faculty\/kenneth-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Kenneth Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/dbmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/09\/prof_kenneth.jpg\" alt=\"prof_kenneth\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"666\" width=\"458\" title=\"prof_kenneth\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p><b>Kenneth BAN<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS<\/p>\n<h5>Assistant Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR<\/h5>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kenneth-ban-44323638\/\" target=\"_self\"  aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kenneth-ban-44323638\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/h3><\/li><li>\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h3><a href=\"mailto:kenneth_ban@nus.edu.sg\" target=\"_self\"  aria-label=\"Go to mailto:kenneth_ban@nus.edu.sg\">kenneth_ban@nus.edu.sg<\/a><\/h3><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-0\" data-index=\"0\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tBrief Introduction\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-1\" data-index=\"1\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tTeaching Areas &#038; Research Interests\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-2\" data-index=\"2\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-2\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tJournals &#038; Publications\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrief Introduction\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kenneth obtained his BSc (Hons) and MBBS degrees from NUS and a PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford University, He completed his postdoctoral training in mouse cancer genetics at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) Singapore prior to joining the Department of Biochemistry at NUS.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a medical educator since joining NUS and serves as the Phase I Director at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, helping to develop and support initiatives to build students&#8217; understanding of how basic science concepts can linked to clinical applications through interactive teaching methodologies and technology-enhanced learning platforms. He currently also leads the development of a longitudinal Health Informatics track that aims to build foundational competencies in data science for our medical students, empowering them to be innovators who are able to use data-driven approaches to derive new insights for improving healthcare outcomes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTeaching Areas &#038; Research Interests\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><strong>Research Interest<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Prostate and Breast Cancer Genetics<\/li>\n<li>Mouse Models of Cancer<\/li>\n<li>Transposon Mutagenesis for Cancer Gene Discovery and Validation<\/li>\n<li>Cell Cycle Regulation, Cellular Senescence, Cell Fate Determination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJournals &#038; Publications\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Wong ES*,\u00a0<b>Ban KH<\/b>*, Mutalif R, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG, Stewart CL. A simple procedure for the efficient derivation of mouse ES cells.\u00a0<i>Methods Enzymol<\/i>. 2010;476:265-83 *Equal contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Torres JZ,\u00a0<b>Ban KH<\/b>, Jackson PK. A specific form of phospho protein phosphatase 2 regulates anaphase-promoting complex\/cyclosome association with spindle poles.\u00a0<i>Mol Biol Cell<\/i>. 2010 Mar 15;21(6):897-904.<\/li>\n<li>Verschuren EW,\u00a0<b>Ban KH<\/b>, Masek MA, Lehman NL, Jackson PK. Loss of Emi1-dependent anaphase-promoting complex\/cyclosome inhibition deregulates E2F target expression and elicits DNA damage-induced senescence.\u00a0<i>Mol Cell Biol<\/i>. 2007 Nov;27(22):7955-65.<\/li>\n<li><b>Ban KH<\/b>, Torres JZ, Miller JJ, Mikhailov A, Nachury MV, Tung JJ, Rieder CL, Jackson PK. The END network couples spindle pole assembly to inhibition of the anaphase-promoting complex\/cyclosome in early mitosis.\u00a0<i>Dev Cell<\/i>. 2007 Jul;13(1):29-42.<\/li>\n<li>Lee AT, Ren J, Wong ET,\u00a0<b>Ban KH<\/b>, Lee LA, Lee CG. The hepatitis B virus X protein sensitizes HepG2 cells to UV light-induced DNA damage.\u00a0<i>J Biol Chem<\/i>. 2005 Sep 30;280(39):33525-35.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>More: Google Scholar<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth BAN Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS Assistant Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR LinkedIn kenneth_ban@nus.edu.sg Brief Introduction Teaching Areas &#038; Research Interests Journals &#038; Publications Brief Introduction Kenneth obtained his BSc (Hons) and MBBS degrees from NUS and a PhD in Cancer Biology from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9113,"featured_media":0,"parent":2595,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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