Denis BERTRAND

Faculty Mentor:

Research Domain:

Education:

Research Interests:

Contact: bertrandd@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Shumei CHIA

Faculty Mentor: Ramanuj Dasgupta

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology

Education:
PhD, National University of Singapore BSc, National University of Singapore

Research Interests: Wnt signaling in cancer stem cell and human embryonic stem cells

Contact: chiasm1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Rajkumarv DORAJOO

Faculty Mentor: Liu Jianjun

Research Domain: Human Genetics

Education:
Imperial College London

Research Interests:

Contact: dorajoor@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Maria Del Mar GONZALEZ PORTA

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education:
University of Cambridge, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: Mar_Gonzalez_Porta@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Say Li KONG

Faculty Mentor: Alexander Lezhava

Research Domain: Translational Research

Education:
2012 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), National University of Singapore 2003 Master of Science (MSc.), National University of Singapore 1999 Bachelor of Science (Hons.), University of Putra Malaysia

Research Interests: molecular diagnostics assay development, circulating cancer biomarker, single cell transcriptomics and genomics

Contact: kongsl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Zheng LI

Faculty Mentor: Chiea Chuen KHOR

Research Domain: Human Genetics

Education:
2006 Ph.D., Clinical Medical Science, Newcastle University, UK

Research Interests: Mendelian diseases genetics, Complex diseases genetics, GWAS, Next-Gen Sequencing

Contact: liz11@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Han XIAO

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education:
University of St Andrews, Scotland

Research Interests:

Contact: Xiao_Han@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ravikrishnan AARTHI

Faculty Mentor: Niranjan Nagarajan

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 5

Education: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Indian

Research Interests:

Contact: Aarthi_Ravikrishnan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Shaozhong Jonathan AOW

Faculty Mentor: Liu Jianjun

Research Domain: Human Genetics

Education: PhD, University Of California, USA, Stanford University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: aowsj@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Matias I AUTIO

Faculty Mentor: Roger Foo

Research Domain: Human Genetics; Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Education: PhD, Imperial College London; MRes, Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College London; BSc, Biology, Imperial College London

Research Interests: Genome engineering, cardiac development and disease, stem cell and regenerative medicine

Contact: autiomi@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yi BAO

Faculty Mentor: Yu Qiang

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 1

Education: Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: bao_yi@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jeeranan BOONRUANGKAN

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Jeeranan_Boonruangkan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Anna Sanchez CALLE

Faculty Mentor: Yu Qiang

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 1

Education: Okayama University, Japan

Research Interests:

Contact: Anna_Sanchez_Calle@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Narmada Balakrishnan CHAKRAPANI

Faculty Mentor: Giridharan Periyasamya

Research Domain: High Content Screening

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests: Infectious disease modelling, target discovery and lead validation, genetic engineering, hepatology, cardiovascular pathophysiology

Contact: chakrapaninb@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Hui CHEN

Faculty Mentor: Liu Jianjun

Research Domain: Human Genetics

Education: PhD, BS, Soochow University

Research Interests: Investigate the virus evolution (from the genetics perspective) using bioinformatics and biostatistics

Contact: chenh1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jianbin CHEN

Faculty Mentor: Liu Jianjun

Research Domain: Human Genetics 2

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests: Cancer Genomics, Cancer Heterogeneity

Contact: chenj1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ying CHEN

Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Goke

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 10

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: chen_ying@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Minghao Chia

Faculty Mentor: Niranjan Nagarajan

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 5

Education: PhD, Imperial College London, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: Chia_Minghao@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Shijie Nigel CHOU

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

Contact: Nigel_Chou@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Rajagopalan DEEPA

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Deepa_Rajagopalan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Deniz DEMIRCIOGLU

Faculty Mentor: Winston Chan

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 6

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: ddemircioglu@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yu GUO

Faculty Mentor: Anders Jacobsen Skanderup

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 3

Education: PhD, Cornell University, USA

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Scientific Research

Contact: guoy1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

How Ong Norbert HA

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Norbert_Ha@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Weitai HUANG

Faculty Mentor: Anders Skanderup

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 3

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: huangwt@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ignasius Joanito IRWAN

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

Contact: Ignasius_Joanito_Irwan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Kanika JAIN

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: PhD, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Research Interests:

Contact: Kanika_Jain@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Lingfan JIANG

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: University of Oxford, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: Jiang_Lingfan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Pornchai KAEWSAPSAK

Faculty Mentor: Tan Meng How

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 8

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

Contact: pornchai_kaewsapsak@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Teng Leng Jonathan KANG

Faculty Mentor: Niranjan Nagarajan

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 5

Education: Stanford University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: jonathan_kang@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Choong Tat Eddie KENG

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Keng_Choong_Tat@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Puja KHANNA

Faculty Mentor: Torsten Wuestefeld

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regnerative Biology 4

Education: National University of Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Khanna_Puja@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Chwee Tat KOE

Faculty Mentor: Huck / Winston Chan Yun Shen

Research Domain: Huck's Lab

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: ChweeTat_Koe@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Mei Suen Michelle KONG

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Research Interests:

Contact: Michelle_Kong@gis.a-star.edu.sg

May Yin LEE

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 6

Education: PhD. National University of Singapore

Research Interests: Developmental and pathological aspects of the breast, stem cell biology, cancer, cancer metabolism, mouse genetics and disease modelling

Contact: leemy@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yong An LEE

Faculty Mentor: Torsten Wuestefeld

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 4

Education: Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Research Interests:

Contact: lee_yong-an@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Youzong Maurice LEE

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: PhD. Stanford University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: Maurice_Lee@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Bo LI

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: PhD. Harvard University, USA

Research Interests: 

Contact: Li_Bo@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yee Siang LIM

Faculty Mentor: Winston Chan

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 6

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: limys@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jia Min LOO

Faculty Mentor: Ramanuj DasGupta

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 5

Education: PhD, The Rockefeller University, USA

Research Interests: Cancer Stem Cells, Genetics

Contact: loojm@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ser Yue LOO

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology

Education: PhD, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests: Cancer stem cell differentiation, Cancer therapeutics, Cancer lipidomics

Contact: loosy@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Joo Leng LOW

Faculty Mentor: Ramanuj Dasgupta

Research Domain: Cancer therapeutics and stratified oncology

Education: PhD, National University of Singapore; BSc, National University of Singapore

Research Interests: Cancer transcriptomics, chemical genetics,chemical biology

Contact: lowjl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Siming MA

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology 6

Education: Harvard University, USA

Research Interests: Cancer biology, bioinformatics

Contact: mas1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Mohamed Amine MELIANI

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: Sorbonne University, France

Research Interests:

Contact: Mohamed_Amine@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yingting MOK

Faculty Mentor: Yu Qiang

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 1

Education: University of Cambridge, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: mok_yingting@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Maki MURATA

Faculty Mentor: Ramanuj DasGupta

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 5

Education: PhD, Hokkaido University

Research Interests:

Contact: maki_murata@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Lavanya MUTHUKRISHNAN IYER

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: Institute Medical Center, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Lavanya_Iyer@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Zahid NAWAZ

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: Indian Institute of Science, India

Research Interests: Intra-tumour heterogeneity and the role of cancer niche in tumorigenesis

Contact: nawazz@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Gokce OGUZ

Faculty Mentor: Yu Qiang

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 1

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: gokce_oguz@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Chee Wee ONG

Faculty Mentor: Anders Skanderup

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 3

Education: Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland

Research Interests:

Contact: ong_chee_wee@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ting Xun Nicholas ONG

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: Rice University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: nicholas_ong@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Li Teng ONG

Faculty Mentor: Yu Qiang

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Strat Oncology 1

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: ong_li_teng@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jung Eun PARK

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: Seoul National University, Korea

Research Interests:

Contact: Park_Jung_Eun@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Elina PATHAK

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology 6

Education: PhD, Univ of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.; B. Pharmacy, Jadavpur University, India

Research Interests: Drug screening and development of new therapeutics

Contact: Pathake@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Eileen PNG

Faculty Mentor: Niranjan Nagarajan

Research Domain: Infectious Diseases; Human Genetics

Education: PhD, National University of Singapore; BSc (Honors Class 1), University of New South Wales

Research Interests: Genetic epidemiology, immunology, population genetics

Contact: pnge@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Anna POTAPOVA

Faculty Mentor: Ng Huck Hui

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology

Education: PhD, Volgograd State Medical University, Russia; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russia

Research Interests: DNA-methylation dependent silencing of tumor suppressor genes and its impact on cancer development. Regenerative biology, liver regeneration. Impact of cellular senescence on the process of liver regeneration and aging and regeneration mediated senescence escape and transformation of cells.

Contact: potapovaa@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Naruemon PRATANWANICH

Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Goke

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 10

Education: University of Cambridge, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: Pratanwanich_Naruemon@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Hong-Ting PREKOP

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: PhD, King's College London

Research Interests:

Contact: HongTing_Prekop@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Priscilla Dorothy RAJAKUMAR

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: University College London, UK

Research Interests:

Contact: Priscilla_Dorothy_Rajakumar@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Neha ROHATGI

Faculty Mentor: Anders Jacobsen Skanderup

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 3

Education: University of Iceland, Iceland

Research Interests: Metabolism of tumor microenvironment

Contact: rohatgin@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Shvetha SANKARAN

Faculty Mentor: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Shvetha_Sankaran@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jagadish SANKARAN

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Jagadish_Sankaran@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Padmapriya SATHIYANATHAN

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: padmapriya_sathiyanathan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Florian SCHMIDT

Faculty Mentor: Shyam Prabhakar

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 6

Education: Saarland University, Germany

Research Interests:

Contact: Florian_Schmidt@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ankur SHARMA

Faculty Mentor: Ramanuj DasGupta

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 5

Education: PhD, Indian Institute of Science, India

Research Interests: Cancer Research, Cancer Stem Cells, Genes Therapy

Contact: sharmaa@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Andre Darah SIM

Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Goke

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 10

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Andre_Sim@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Vipul SINGHAL

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: California Institute of Technology, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: Vipul_Singhal@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yan SU

Faculty Mentor: Alexander Lezhava

Research Domain: Translational Research

Education: PhD, Donghua University-National University of Singapore; BS, Anhui Normal University

Research Interests: Molecular diagnostic assays development

Contact: suy1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Deepa SUBRAMANIAN

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: PhD, Boston University

Research Interests:

Contact: deepa_subramanian@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Xuyang Alfred SUN

Faculty Mentor: Ng Huck Hui

Research Domain: Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Education: PhD, Stanford University; BS, Duke University

Research Interests: Stem cell fate determination, synthetic biology, neuroscience

Contact: sunxya@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Chayaporn SUPHAVILAI

Faculty Mentor: Niranjan Nagarajan

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 5

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Suphavilai_Chayaporn@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Zhihao TAN

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: University of Washington, USA

Research Interests: Cancer, aging, personalized medicine, molecular diagnostics

Contact: tanzh1@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Kia Min Joanna TAN

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: National University of Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: joanna_tan@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Hui Juan Joanna TAN

Faculty Mentor: Shih Chih Chuan

Research Domain: Bioinformatics Core 1

Education: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: joanna_tanhj@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Sze Sing Shaun TEO

Faculty Mentor: Aleksandre Lejava

Research Domain: Translational Research 1

Education: The Rockefeller University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: shaun_teo@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Anna TRACZYK

Faculty Mentor: Chew Wei Leong

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 2

Education: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Research Interests:

Contact: anna_traczyk@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Jiaxu WANG

Faculty Mentor: Wan Yue

Research Domain: Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Education: PhD, University of Science and Technology of China; BS, Tongji University

Research Interests: Mechanism of neural cell differentiation

Contact: Wangjx@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Zhenxun WANG

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology 6

Education: PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Watson School of Biological Sciences; BS University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: Cancer metabolism, alternative splicing, antisense and small molecule therapeutics

Contact: wangzx@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yuanming WANG

Faculty Mentor: Tan Meng How

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 8

Education: Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Research Interests:

Contact: Wang_Yuanming@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Manjie XING

Faculty Mentor: Patrick Tan

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics & Stratified Oncology 2

Education: PhD, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering

Research Interests:

Contact: mxing@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Lin YANG

Faculty Mentor: Ng Huck Hui

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 6

Education: Harvard University, USA

Research Interests: Adult stem cells and Cell fate specification

Contact: yangl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Siwy Ling YANG

Faculty Mentor: Wan Yue

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 7

Education: The University of Florida, USA

Research Interests: Fungal Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology

Contact: yangsl@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Fei YAO

Faculty Mentor: Sarah Ng

Research Domain: Genome Innovation Lab

Education: PhD, BS, Qufu Normal University

Research Interests: Study cancer genome structural variations by long span (10 kb) DNA-PET; method development and protocol optimization for constructing high quality next generation sequencing library

Contact: yaof@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Guo Rong Daniel YIM

Faculty Mentor: Tan Yann Chong

Research Domain: Office of Research Admin

Education: PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Daniel_Yim@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ju YUAN

Faculty Mentor: Tam Wai Leong

Research Domain: Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology 6

Education: PhD, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; BS, North West Agriculture and Forestry University, China

Research Interests: Adult stem cell, cancer stem cell, cancer therapy, circulating tumor cells

Contact: juy@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Tong ZHANG

Faculty Mentor: Wan Yue

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 7

Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhang_Tong@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Yu ZHANG

Faculty Mentor: Wan Yue

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 7

Education: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhang_Yu@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Rongrong ZHAO

Faculty Mentor: Roger Foo

Research Domain: Cardiovascular research

Education: University of Cambridge, Centre for Brain Repair, UK; B.Sc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: rrzhao@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Ziqing Winston ZHAO

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: Harvard University, USA

Research Interests:

Contact: winston_zhao@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Qixing ZHONG

Faculty Mentor: Tan Meng How

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 8

Education: PhD, National University of Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhong_Qixing@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Xinrui ZHOU

Faculty Mentor: Chen Kok Hao

Research Domain: Synthetic Biology 1

Education: PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhou_Xinrui@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Bowen ZHU

Faculty Mentor: Wan Yue

Research Domain: Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology 7

Education: PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhu_Bowen@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Guanhua ZHU

Faculty Mentor: Anders Skanderup

Research Domain: Computational & Systems Biology 3

Education: PhD, Nanyang Technological University

Research Interests:

Contact: Zhu_Guanhua@gis.a-star.edu.sg