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A/Prof Fong Chui Yee

A/Prof Fong Chui Yee

A/Prof Fong Chui Yee

bgfong@nus.edu.sg

Chui Yee Fong obtained her Bachelor of Science degree with honours in Biological Sciences from the National University of Singapore in 1990, followed by a Master of Science (MSc) in 1993 and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2001 in reproductive and stem cell biology from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. In 1997, she was given the Outstanding University Researcher Award from the National University of Singapore for her research in embryology. She was Chief Embryologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) program before embarking on full-time research in stem cell biology in 2006. She holds several patents and publications in reputed journals, conference papers and chapters in books. She was one of the founding scientists of Embryonic Stem Cell International (ESI), Singapore, now a subsidiary of Biotime, USA and has recently out-licensed her patents on human Wharton’s jelly stem cells to Celligenics Pte Ltd. She is currently Research Associate Professor and leads the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology research program on human umbilical cord Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells. Her current interests include research on human induced pluripotent stem cells to study disease pathogenesis, and Wharton’s jelly stem cells for cell-based therapies in the areas of wound healing in diabetic foot ulcer and bedsores in older adults, bone marrow repair, malignant hematopoietic diseases and pelvic floor diseases.

Publications

  1. Fong, C. Y., Bongso, A., Ng, S. C., Anandakumar, C., Trounson, A., & Ratnam, S. (1997). Ongoing normal pregnancy after transfer of zona-free blastocysts: implications for embryo transfer in the human. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 12(3), 557–560. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/12.3.557
  2. Bongso, A., Fong, C. Y., Ng, S. C., & Ratnam, S. (1994). Isolation and culture of inner cell mass cells from human blastocysts. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 9(11), 2110–2117. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a138401
  3. Reubinoff, B. E., Pera, M. F., Fong, C. Y., Trounson, A., & Bongso, A. (2000). Embryonic stem cell lines from human blastocysts: somatic differentiation in vitro. Nature biotechnology, 18(4), 399–404. https://doi.org/10.1038/74447
  4. Richards, M., Fong, C. Y., Chan, W. K., Wong, P. C., & Bongso, A. (2002). Human feeders support prolonged undifferentiated growth of human inner cell masses and embryonic stem cells. Nature biotechnology, 20(9), 933–936. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt726
  5. Fong, C. Y., Subramanian, A., Biswas, A., Gauthaman, K., Srikanth, P., Hande, M. P., & Bongso, A. (2010). Derivation efficiency, cell proliferation, freeze-thaw survival, stem-cell properties and differentiation of human Wharton's jelly stem cells. Reproductive biomedicine online, 21(3), 391–401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.04.010
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