FACULTY Staff

The Genome Institute of Singapore has a Core Faculty who work independently as well as in collaboration with colleagues at GIS and beyond. Hailing from all around the world, our faculty bring together expertise in cancer, infectious diseases, stem cell, regenerative biology, human genetics, genomics and computational biology.

Directors


Executive Director, GIS,
Laboratory of RNA Genomics and Structure 
Associate Director, Epigenetic and Epitranscriptomic Systems

wany@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088117

Deputy Executive Director,
Laboratory of Translational Cancer Biology
Associate Director, Precision Medicine and Population Genomics (Somatic)

tamwl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088328

Chief Technology Officer, GIS,
Laboratory of Complex Disease Genetics

Associate Director, Precision Medicine and Population Genomics (Germline) / Sequencing Platform

khorcc@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088200


Chief Scientific Officer, GIS
Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetic Regulation

tanbop@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088155


Distinguished Principal Scientist
Laboratory of Human Genomics

liuj3@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088088

Associate Directors

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Senior Group Leader, Laboratory of Systems Biology and Data Analytics
Associate Director, Spatial and Single Cell Systems

prabhakars@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088046

Senior Group Leader, Laboratory of Metagenomic Technologies and Microbial Systems
Associate Director, Genome Architecture

nagarajann@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088071

Alexander LEZHAVA

Senior Group Leader, 
Centre for Genome Diagnostics
Associate Director

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Synthetic Biology & Genome Editing
Associate Director, Genome Design

chewwl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088044

FACULTY

Group Leader,
Genome Research Informatics and Data Science Platform

Nicolas_Bertin@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088206

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of EpiMetaGenomics

benson_chen@gis.a-star.edu.sg

6808 8027

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Imagenomics

chenkh@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088281

Senior Group Leader,
Laboratory of Precision Oncology and Cancer Evolution

dasguptar@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088005

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Metabolic Disease and Ageing Genomics

dorajoor@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088201

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Computational Transcriptomics

gokej@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088128

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Women's Health & Genetics

lijm1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088312

Clinical Director,
Centre for Genome Diagnostics

limkht@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088123

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Genome Variation Analytics

Lim_Weng_Khong@gis.a-star.edu.sg

 

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Single-Cell Spatial Neuromics

Liu_Jinyue@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088289

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of DNA methylation and Population Epigenetics

Marie_LOH@gis.a-star.edu.sg

 

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Senior Group Leader,
Laboratory of Precision Disease Therapeutics

nghh@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68266388

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Computational Genomics

Adaikalavan_Ramasamy@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088141

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Diagnostic Accessibility

seowy@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Group Leader,
Laboratory of AI in Genomics

mile_sikic@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088076

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Computational Cancer Genomics

skanderupamj@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088326

Senior Group Leader,
Laboratory of Regulatory Genomics

Jay_Shin@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088281

Group Leader,
Laboratory of Genome Function

timothy_stuart@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Senior Clinician Scientist,
Laboratory of Translational Cancer Biology

tanswd@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088318

Senior Clinician Scientist,
Laboratory of Applied Cancer Genomics

tanbhi@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088210

Senior Group Leader,
Laboratory of Biodiversity Genomics

teh_bin_tean@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088156

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of RNA technology Development and Application

wangjx@gis.a-star.edu.sg 

68088276

Senior Research Scientist,
Laboratory of Ocular Functional Genomics

wangzx@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088086

Group Leader,
Laboratory of In Vivo Genetics & Gene Therapy

wustefeldt@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088218

Senior Group Leader,
Laboratory of Precision Cancer Medicine

yuq@gis.a-star.edu.sg

68088127