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Directors
Mark Chan
CVMD TRP Deputy Director
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Cardiovascular Drug Discovery in Atherosclerosis & Myocardial Infarction
- Biomarker Discovery in Chronic & Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Outcomes & Systems of Care in Acute Coronary Syndrome
Koh Cho Yeow
CVMD TRP Research Director
Research Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Structure-function Relationship Studies
- Drug / Target / Probe Discovery
- Venom / Salivary Proteins & Peptides
Hyungwon Choi
CVMD TRP Director
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Systems Biology Approaches for Cellular Metabolism
- Cheminformatic Method Development
- High-Dimensional Statistical Computing for Network Biology
- Clinical Application of Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics and Proteomics
Primary Members
Roger Foo
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Professor of Medicine
Key Areas of Research
- Clinical Genomics
- Chromatin Architecture
- Cardiovascular Epigenetics & Cell States
- Long Non-coding RNA
- Clinical Genomics
Ronald Lee Chi Hang
Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease
- Obstructive sleep apnea therapeutics on cardiovascular outcomes
- Use of Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
- Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnea in Asia
Shu Ye
Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Genetic basis & mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases
- Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis
- Identification of therapeutic targets
Wang Wenru
Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Chronic illness and Long-Term Care
- Cardiovascular Health & Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Diabetes Management
- Active Aging
- mHealth
- Tele-medicine
- AI
Yibin Wang
Joint Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Heart Failure
- Cardio-metabolic disease
- Cell biology
Arthur Mark Richards
Visiting Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Neurohormonal physiology and pathophysiology in cardiovascular health and disease
- Heart Failure
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Hypertension
- Vasoactive hormones
- The Cardiac Natriuretic Peptides
Chester Drum
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Mass spectrometry for precision medicine applications
- Biomarker discovery and multi-omic analyses of large patient cohorts
- Protein engineering using nano-scale exoshells
Philipp Kaldis
Visiting Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Metabolic remodeling in liver diseases
- Obesity-induced liver cancer (HCC)
- Multi-omics analyses of human diseases and interorgan cross-talk
- Cell cycle regulation
Chen Ching Kit
Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Epigenetics in congenital heart disease
- Preclinical models of congenital heart disease
- Assessment of fetal cardiac function
- Infant heart transplantation
- Myocardial fibrosis & magnetic resonance mapping
Ling Lieng Hsi
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Vascular disease
- Cardiac function
- Biomarkers
- Valvular heart disease
Mark Dhinesh Muthiah
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Fatty liver disease
- Hepatology
Vitaly A. Sorokin
Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
- Cardiovascular Single Cell Analysis
Heng Chew Kiat
Research Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
- Functional characterization of novel proteins identified from genome wide association studies (GWAS) of coronary artery disease
Matthew Ackers-Johnson
Research Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Tissue & hPSC derived cell models
- Cell-cell communication
- Single cell sequencing
Roshni Rebecca Singaraja
Research Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Cardiovascular & metabolic diseases
- Target identification (human genetics) & validation
Antonio Vidal-Puig
Toh Chin Chye Visiting Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
- Lipotoxicity
- Adipogenesis
- Integrated Physiology and Systems Biology
Josip Car
Visiting Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Health services
- Digital health
- Health data science
- Global health
Secondary Members
Reshma Taneja
Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Epigenetic regulation of skeletal muscle differentiation & regeneration
- Chromatin signalling networks in myopathies
Soong Tuck Wah
Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Neurosciences
- Animal cell & molecular biology
- Animal physiology – systems
- Animal physiology – cell
- Genetics
Christopher Chen
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Cognitive Impairment
- Dementia
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Neurodegenerative Disease
- Translational research & Clinical trials in Stroke & Dementia
Dan Yock Young
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Fatty liver disease
- Hepatology
Veronique Angeli
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Lymphatic vessels & LYVE+ macrophage biology & function in resolution of inflammation & cardiovascular disease
Andrew Tan
Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Synaptic mechanisms of complex sound processing in the central auditory system
- Synaptic mechanisms of adult plasticity in the central auditory system
- Heart-Brain neural connection axes
Nguyen Nam Long
Associate Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Novel nutritional transporters
- Physiological ligands for Mfsd2a & Mfsd2b as lipid transporters
- Impact of essential nutrients at the blood-brain barrier
Haojie Yu
Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Atherosclerosis
- Familial Hypercholesterolemia
- NAFLD/NASH
- Functional Genomics
- CRISPR screen
Wang Jiongwei
Research Assistant Professor
Key Areas of Research
- Cardiovascular immunology
- Heart failure (preclinical)
- Extracellular vesicles
- Nanomedicine in cardiometabolic disease (myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, NAFLD/NASH)
Clinical Members
Lim Shir Lynn
Senior consultant Cardiologist /
Assistant Professor (NMRC Transition Talent Awardee)
Sia Ching Hui
Associate Consultant Cardiologist /
Senior Lecturer (Nusmed Junior Academic Fellow)
