Our People
Advancing translational innovation through collaboration
Get to know the team dedicated to extending health span and lifespan through innovative, translational research. Integrating knowledge and expertise across disciplines, the team works collaboratively to develop feasible interventions and strategies for healthy ageing.
Browse our members by areas:
Primary Members
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Andrea Maier
Professor, Medicine
Research interests:
- Geriatrics and internal medicine
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Brian Kennedy
Professor, Biochemistry & Physiology
Research interests:
- Biology of ageing
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Koh Woon Puay
Professor, Dean’s Office (Medicine)
Research interests:
- Epidemiology of chronic diseases
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Reshma Taneja
Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Skeletal muscle differentiation and regeneration
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Soong Tuck Wah
Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Diversification of calcium channel function in neurological disorders
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Christopher Chen
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Research interests:
- Neurodegenerative disease
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Gavin Dawe
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Research interests:
- Neural stem cells and neurogenesis
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Jan Gruber
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Molecular mechanisms of ageing
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Kevin Tan
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Research interests:
- Microbiome-host interactions
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Ling Shuo-Chien
Associate Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Neurodegeneration and ageing
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Low Chian Ming
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Research interests:
- Functional roles of NMDA receptors
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Marie-V Clement
Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Research interests:
- Regulation of cell survival and cell death
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Raymond Seet
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Stroke prevention strategies
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Saji K. Sreedharan
Associate Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Ageing and neurodegeneration
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Sanjay Khanna
Associate Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Circuit mechanism of dementia
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Ti Lian Kah
Associate Professor, Anaesthesia
Research interests:
- Outcomes after cardiac surgery
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Andrew Tan
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Synaptic mechanisms in the central auditory system
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Huang Zhongwei
Deputy Director and Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Bia-Echo Asia Centre for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (ACRLE)
Research interests:
- Reproductive ageing
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Jai Santosh Polepalli
Assistant Professor, Anatomy
Research interests:
- Molecular and cell biology
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John Chua
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Neurodegeneration and neuronal ageing
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Mallilankaraman Karthik Babu
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic stroke
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Rajeev Parameswaran
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Research interests:
- Endocrine cancers and inherited endocrine syndromes
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Tsai Shih-Yin
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Protein homeostastis in ageing
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Vincenzo Sorrentino
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Biology of Ageing With a Focus on the Interconnection Between Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Proteostasis.
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Esther Wong
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Neurodegeneration and age-related diseases
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Feng Lei
Research Assistant Professor, Psychological Medicine
Research interests:
- Epidemiology and prevention of cognitive decline
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Goh Jorming
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Exercise and age-associated immunosenescence
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Huang Hua
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- RNA processing
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Karen Crasta
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology
Research interests:
- Chromosome instability and age-related diseases
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Judy Sng
Senior Lecturer, Pharmacology
Research interests:
- Neurodevelopment and diseases
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Mitchell Lai
Senior Lecturer, Pharmacology
Research interests:
- Dementia neurochemistry and biomarkers
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Volker Patzel
Senior Lecturer, Microbiology & Immunology
Research interests:
- RNA technologies
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Rufaihah Binte Abdul Jalil
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Surgery
Research interests:
- Cardiac and vascular regeneration
Secondary Members
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Johan G Eriksson
Professor
Research interests:
- Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
- Type 2 Diabetes
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Shazib Pervaiz
Professor
Research interests:
- Receptor and Non-receptor Death Signaling
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Caroline Lee
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Functional Genomics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Helen Zhou
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Human Neural Bases of Cognitive Functions
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Herbert Schwarz
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Tumorimmunology
- Autoimmunity
- Immunotherapy
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Justin Chu
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Molecular Virology
- Antiviral Therapeutics
- Vaccine Development
- Host-virus Interactions
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Lu Jinhua
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Antinuclear Autoimmunity
- Nucleolus
- Complement C1 Proteases
- SLE
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Thilo Hagen
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Cellular Signaling & Energy Metabolism
- Cellular Stress Response
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Yew Wen Shan
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Multi-faceted Interface Between Enzymology and Biological Chemistry
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Zhang Yongliang
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Signal Transduction Pathways
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Benoit Malleret
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Microbiology And Immunology
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Derrick Ong
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Glioma Stem Cells
- Cancer Epigenetics
- Ageing Neural Stem Cells
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Saima Halil
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Aetiology
- Occurrence & Prevention of Ageing-related Diseases in the Elderly
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Tay Kah Ping, Andy
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Magnetic biomaterials
- Mechanobiology Medicine
- Immuno-engineering
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Tee Wee Wei
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Targeting Chromatin Vulnerabilities in Cancer
- Identifying Epigenetic Drivers of Therapeutic Resistance
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Vivien Wu
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Chronic Disease Management for Older Adults & Caregivers
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Alan Prem Kumar
Research Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Metastatic Cancers
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Alfredo Franco-Obregon
Research Assistant Professor, Surgery
Research interests:
- Tissue engineering and regeneration
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Ang Eng Tat
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Vaccine Development & Host-pathogen Interactions
Adjunct Members
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Jonathan Loh
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Stem Cell Biology
- Cell Fates Engineering
- Cellular Reprogramming & Trans-differentiation
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Victor Yu
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- BCL-2 family of proteins
- Mitochondrial Cell Death Mechanisms
- Mitochondrial dynamics
- Drug Discovery
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Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
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Koh Tong-Wey
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Parkinson’s Disease & Ageing
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Ng Shi Yan
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Disease Modeling
- Neurodegeneration
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Soh Boon Seng
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Stem Cells
- Organoids
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Neuroscience
- Metabolic Disorders
Administrative Members
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Clarinda Lim
Senior Manager
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Hataitip Tasena
Scientific Manager
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Yong Tan Fong
Lab Manager