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Programme Directors

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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Programme Manager

Colin Nicholas Sng

Programme Manager (Admin Lead)

Area of Research

Provide overall research programme management in terms of programme objectives, timelines, milestones, resources, infrastructure, budgeting, and manpower planning and reporting as required.

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Primary (Basic Sciences) Members

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

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

Ngiam Kee Yuan

Associate Professor

Area of Research

  • Thyroid & Endocrine Surgery

Research Interests

  • Endocrine and Metabolic Surgery
  • AI Applications in Healthcare.

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Adjunct Members

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

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