Principal Investigator
Prof Hanry Yu
PhD (Cell Biology, Duke, USA)
Professor of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Director of NUHS Research Core Facilities on Flow Cytometry Laboratory, National University Health System
Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Co-Lead Principal Investigator, Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
Email: medyuh@nus.edu.sg
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Senior Research Staff
Guang LI
PhD (Physiology, National University of Singapore)
Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS
Email: nusmbilig@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: electrophysiology and mechanobiology of cardiac organoid
SUN Lingyu
PhD (Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, China)
Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS
Email: lysun@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: tissue engineering
Awarded Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship
Kartik Mitra VENKAT
PhD (Biotechnology, IITM-NUS, India)
Research Fellow, Physiology, NUS
Email: kartik@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: role of bile acids in gut
ZHOU Hanzhang (Helen)
PhD (ISEP, National University of Singapore)
Research Fellow, NUS
Email: hanzhang-zhou@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: Flavour of cells, NAMs for Food Safety Testing, and Food AI
ZHU Yiwen
PhD (Food Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Instittue, NUS
Email: ywzhu@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: Cultivated meat, cellular agriculture, food flavor perception
NG Inn Chuan
PhD (NGS, NUS)
Research Associate, Mechanobiology Instittue, NUS
Email: nginnchuan@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: imaging, cell biology
Research Staff
PANG Yu Hui Delia
BSc (Biomedical Science, University of Queensland, Australia)
Senior Laboratory Executive, Flow Cytometry Laboratory, NUS
Email: medpyhd@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: Confocal microscopy, flow cytometry and multiphoton microscopy operations
WANG Xiaoning
MD (Gynecology and Obstetrics, CMU, China)
Laboratory Manager, Flow Cytometry Laboratory, NUS
Email: medwx@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: ISAC & ICCS Certified Cytometrist provides a full range of training for users and core operators
CHIN Sze Khen
BSc (Life Sciences, NUS)
Research Assistant, Mechanobiology, NUS
Email: szekhenchin@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest: Safety Assessment of Cell-based Meat, Alternative Protein Research, Cellular Agriculture
ZHENG Kexiao
MS (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, China)
Research Associate & PhD student, Research Associate, NUS
Email: kexiao@nus.edu.sg
Research Area of Interest:
Graduate Students
HOANG Mai Thanh Truc
B.Sc. Biotechnology, VNUHCM – University of Science, Vietnam
Ph.D. Student, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Email: e1583369@u.nus.edu
Research Area of Interest: Mechanobiology, Cellular Biophysics, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Cancer Microenvironment
HU Yuqi
MEng (Signal Processing, NTU)
Ph.D. Student & Research Assistant, Medicine, NUS
Email: e1710097@u.nus.edu
Research Area of Interest: AI image processing and analysis
Vishnu Goutham Kota
MBBS/MD (Medicine, Surgery, Zhejiang University, China)
M.RES (Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
B.TECH (Bioengineering, NIT Warangal, India)
Ph.D. Student, Engineering, NUS
Email: e1100036@u.nus.edu
Research Area of Interest: Gastroenterology, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NASH
LOH Jia Xin
BSc (Life Sciences, NUS)
Ph.D. Student, Medicine, NUS
Email: e0424937@u.nus.edu
Research Area of Interest: flavour and sensory sciences, cell-culture meat and their alternatives
ZHANG Zhiyi
MSE (Biomedical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Ph.D. Student, Medicine, NUS
Email: e1327972@u.nus.edu
Research Area of Interest: 3D cell culture model