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Kevin Patrick White
Programme Director
Professor
Area of Research
- Ipsum Lorum
Research Interests
- Functional Genomics
- System Biology
- Nucleic acid-based therapeutics
- Cellular Engineering
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Tai E Shyong
Deputy Programme Director
Professor
Area of Research
- Metabolic diseases & Diabetes: Cellular & Molecular mechanisms, Genetics & nutrition, Therapy
Research Interests
- Mobile health & behavioural science related to health
- Insulin resistance & its genetics
- Diabetes
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Primary (Basic Sciences) Members
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Federico Tesio Torta
Research Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- Synthetic Biology: Proteomics & Lipidomics
Research Interests
- Mass Spectrometry
- Clinical lipidomics
- Protein-lipid interactions
- Signalling lipids
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Amaury Gassiot Cazenave
Research Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- Synthetic Biology: Proteomics & Lipidomics
Research Interests
- Mass Spectrometry
- Metabolomics
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Ban Hon Kim, Kenneth
Senior Lecturer
Area of Research
- Functional ageing: cellular & molecular engineering, health care & others.
Research Interests
- Prostate cancer
- Breast cancer
- Transposon screens
- High performance computing
- Mouse models
- Translational bioinformatics
- Technology-enhance medical education
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Lee Guat Lay, Caroline
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Functional Ageing: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms
Research Interests
- Next-Generation Sequencing
- Metagenomics
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Cancer Genomics
- Pharmacogenomics
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Hyungwon Choi
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Computational Biology
Research Interests
- Multi-omics Integration
- Mass Spectrometry Informatics
- Biomarker Discovery & Characterization
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Teo Kee Keong Adrian
Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- Metabolic Diseases & Diabetes: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, Stell Cell Biology
Research Interests
- Stem Cell
- iPSCs
- Diabetes
- Pancreas
- Islet beta-cells
- Human development
- Precision medicine
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Yu Haojie
Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- Cardiovascular diseases: Cellular & Molecular Mechanism, Genetics
- Metabolic Diseases & Diabetes: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, Genetics & Nutrition
Research Interests
- Hypercholesterolemia Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression & Regression Functional Genomics & Cardiometabolic Disease Genome editing
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Hu Chunyi
Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- CRISPRS-Cas Immunity System
Research Interests
- Molecular Mechanisms
- Supramolecular complexes in immunity systems
- Adaptive immunity systems
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Liu Boxiang
Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- GWAS, Statistical method development, Machine Learning models, Natural Language Processing (NLP),
Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Research Interests
- GWAS of genetic variants with complex human diseases
- Expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) mapping
- Deep learning architecture integrated with cis- & trans-regulators of gene expression
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Primary (Clinical) Members
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Chester Lee Drum
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Cardiovascular Diseases: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms
- Metabolic Diseases & Diabetes: Therapy
Research Interests
- Mass Spectrometry
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Trials
- Bioinformatics
- Proteomics
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Dan Yock Young
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Cardiovascular Diseases: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms
- Metabolic Diseases & Diabetes: Therapy
Research Interests
- Liver Stem Cells
- Liver Cancer
- Fatty Liver
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Asim Shabbir
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
Research Interests
- Bariatric Surgery outcomes
- Impact of Surgery on Metabolic Diseases
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Mahesh Choolani
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Reproductive & Developmental Biology
Research Interests
- Fetal Medicine & Therapy
- Ovarian Cancer
- Reproductive Stem Cells
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Khoo Chin Meng
Assistant Professor
Area of Research
- Metabolic Diseases & Diabetes
Research Interests
- Insulin resistance
- Insulin secretion
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Obesity
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Secondary (Clinical) Members
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Ngiam Kee Yuan
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Thyroid & Endocrine Surgery
Research Interests
- Endocrine and Metabolic Surgery
- AI Applications in Healthcare.
Adjunct Members
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Markus Wenk
Visiting Professor
Area of Research
- Lipidomics
- Meta
Research Interests
- Mass Spectrometry
- Metabolomics
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Yang Yi Yan
Adjunct Research
Professor
Area of Research
- Bioengineering
- Non-viral Biopolymers / Polypeptides
- Antimicrobial & Antiviral Biopolymers / Polypeptides
- Microneedles Platforms
- Metal-cluster Based Antimicrobial Coatings
- Biomaterials for Soft Medical Implants & Coatings
Research Interests
- Drug and Gene Delivery
- Polymer-based Gene Delivery Nanocarriers
- Non-viral Nanocarriers for Targeted Delivery of Mrna Vaccine
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Sim Xueling
Associate Professor
Area of Research
- Statistical Genetics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Biostatistics
Research Interests
- Multi-ethnic Cohorts
- Precision Medicine
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Jay Shin
Adjunct Associate
Professor
Area of Research
- Non-coding DNA and RNA Elements
Research Interests
- Decoding Non-coding Elements by Developing Break-through Genomic Technologies and Automations for Large-scale Assays
- Non-coding Elements for Precision Medicine
- Clinical Diagnosis
- Medical Intervention