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