Epidemic Preparedness Researchers




Detection
- Ankit Kumar Das
Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, AI for Disease Detection and Progression - Charles Wang Wei
Research Interests: Microfluidics sample preparation, Point-of-care testing, Molecular diagnostics, Immunoassay, blood analysis - Chayaporn Suphavilai
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Genome Characterization, Antimicrobial Resistance, Metagenomics, Precision Medicine - Chon U Chan
Research Interests: Molecular diagnosis, Automation, Robotics, Electronics, PCR - Farid Ghadessy
Research Interests: Enzyme engineering, Molecular diagnostics, Biosensors - Feng Yangqin
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis - Goh Siow Mong, Rick
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimodal AI, Community Screening - Huang Weimin
Research Interests: AI and ML, Medical Image Analysis, Image Diagnosis, Multi-modal risk prediction - Jeroen Schmitt
Research Interests: Digital Biomarkers, Symptom Detection, Decentralized Clinical Research - Joe Yeong
Research Interests: Immunology, Pathology, Immunotherapy, Spatial biology - Laura Sutarlie
Research Interests: Sensors, Biosensors, Nanomaterials, Environmental surveillance, Disease surveillance - Lei Xiaofeng
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Telemedicine, Medical Image Analysis - Liu Yong
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis - Masafumi Inoue
Research Interests: Infectious diseases, Molecular diagnostics, Cancer biomarkers, Point-of-care testing, Emerging diseases - Ow Sian Yang
Research Interests: Biosensors, Nanomaterials, Environmental Surveillance, Bacteria, Viruses - Saurabh Aggarwal
Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI for Detection and Risk Estimation - Seow Yiqi
Research Interests: Metagenomic Sequencing, Point-of-care testing - Shaista Hussain
Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, AI for Disease Detection and Progression - Su Xiaodi
Research Interests: Biosensors, Nanomaterials Disease surveillance, Environmental surveillance - Wang FuKe
Research Interests: Additive manufacturing, Functional materials, Bioengineering, Biosensors, Nanomaterials - Wang Yan
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis - Wang Yue
Research Interests: Fungal pathogens, Candida species, Antifungal resistance mechanisms, Fungal infection models, Fungal genome study - Wang Zizhou
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis - Wu Bingjie
Research Interests: Metagenomic Sequencing, Bioinformatics - Xu Xinxing
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Multimodal AI for Healthcare, Medical Image Analysis - Yang Feng
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Physics-based AI, AI for Diagnostics and Prognostics - Yang Le
Research Interests: Wearable Biosensors - Zhen Liangli
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis - Zheng Xinting
Research Interests: Sensors, nanomaterials, Wearables, Antibacterial, Disease surveillance
Intervention
- Adeline Chua
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Drug resistance, Assay development - Alison Lee
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities - Andre Choo
Research Interests: Manufacturing of mRNA-based modalities, Antibody discovery and development - Andy Tan
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities - Bhanu Prakash KN
Research Interests: Clinical Data Analytics & Radiomics, Population atlas based analysis, Neuroimaging analysis, Metabolic studies in Geriatric population - Boon Seng Soh
Research Interests: Cardiac organoid model, disease modelling and therapeutics development, Mitotherapy, machine learning, Anti-ageing - Brian Cheng San Chia
Research Interests: Anti-bacterial Drug discovery, Peptide Chemistry - Chandra Verma
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Membrane active antimicrobial design, Development, Modelling, Simulations - Cheng-I Wang
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Antibody engineering - Christophe Bodenreider
Research Interests: Malaria, High Throughput Screening, Drug Discovery, Target ID - Dave Ow
Research Interests: Microbial recombinant protein/vaccine expression, Recombinant protein display on probiotic bacteria, Manufacturing of mRNA-based modalities - Desmond Heng
Research Interests: Aerosol Drug Delivery and Formulation, Combination Therapy, Formulation of mRNA-based modalities - Ethirajulu Kantharaj
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Preclinical Development, Bioanalysis, Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, Chemistry and manufacturing - Evan Tan
Research Interests: Viral vector, Process development, Culture media development, Bioreactor scale up - Fok Moon Lum
Research Interests: Vector borne infection, Infectious diseases, Immunology, Neuroimmunology, Virology - Guillaume Carissimo
Research Interests: Virology, Host pathogen interactions, Immunology, Host factors, Vaccines - Hao Fan
Research Interests: In silico ligand prediction, Protein structure modeling, MD simulation - Jianguo Li
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Membrane active antimicrobial design, Development, Modelling, Simulations - Jinmiao Chen
Research Interests: Single-cell multi/spatial-omics with AI for precision immunology research - Joseph Cherian
Research Interests: Anti-bacterial Drug discovery, Medicinal Chemistry - Jun Ping Quek
Research Interests: Viral vaccine, Recombinant protein, Culture media development - Kamolrat Somboon
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics simulation, Computational chemistry, Structural Biology - Kong Peng Lam
Research Interests: Immunology, Signal Transduction, Infectious Diseases - Matthew Zirui Tay
Research Interests: Infectious disease, Antibodies, Microfluidics, Bioassays, Antimicrobial resistance - Mohd Firdaus Bin Samsudin
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics simulation, Computational chemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Drug design - Nicholas Weikang Lin
Research Interests: Infectious disease, Antibodies, Droplet microfluidics, Bioassays - Prabha Sampath
Research Interests: MicroRNAs, Wound healing, RNA Therapeutics - Roland Huber
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, RNA biology, RNA structure, multi-comics - Samuel Lim
Research Interests: Sensors, Platform development, Nanomaterials, Environmental surveillance - Say Kong Ng
Research Interests: Viral vaccine, Viral vector, Recombinant protein, Process and media development, Bioreactor scale up - Shanshan Wu Howland
Research Interests: Transcriptomics, Single Cell Multi-omics, Immune Repertoire, Spatial Transcriptomics - Shi Yan Ng
Research Interests: Human models of neurodegeneration, Neural organoids, Neuronal metabolism, Mitochondrial therapy, Neurotropic viruses - Shigeki Sugii
Research Interests: Novel short peptides against AMR strains, Anti-microbial effects of differentiating adipose-derived stem cells and their extracellular vesicles (EVs/exosomes), In vitro and in vivo models of wound-associated infections, Dual bactericidal and regenerative treatments - Siew Pheng Lim
Research Interests: Infectious Diseases, Drug discovery, Diagnostics, Vaccines - Smarajit Chakraborty
Research Interests: Novel short peptides against AMR strains, Anti-microbial effects of differentiating adipose-derived stem cells and their extracellular vesicles (EVs/exosomes), In vitro and in vivo models of wound-associated infections, Dual bactericidal and regenerative treatments - Adeline Chua
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Drug resistance, Assay development - Stefan Oehlers
Research Interests: Mycobacteria, Cryptococci, Host-directed therapy, Vascular pathology, Zebrafish infection model - Thomas Dawson
Research Interests: Malassezia Furfur, Seborrhea, Hair Follicle, Skin Microbiome - Wei Leong Chew
Research Interests: Nucleic acid therapeutics, CRISPR, Adeno-associated virus, New diagnostic tech modalities - Wei Zhang
Research Interests: Virus isolation and purification, recombinant protein vaccine purification and analytics, inactivated virus vaccine purification and analytics, viral vector vaccine purification and analytics, mRNA vaccine purification and analytics - Xian Jun Loh
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Biodegradable, Hydrogel, Sustainability - Xuezhi Bi
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities - Yaw Sing Tan
Research Interests: Molecular modelling, Druggability assssment, Computational drug discovery, Fragment-based design, Molecular dynamics - Yee Joo Tan
Research Interests: Hepatitis virus, newly emerged virus, reverse genetics virus system, Host-targeted agents - Yew Wai Leong
Research Interests: Microbiology, Immunology, Cell Biology - Ying Swan Ho
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities - Yuansheng Yang
Research Interests: Cell line development, Antibody engineering, Antibody production
Prevention
- Huizhe Liu
Research Interests: Electromagnetic scattering, Urban microclimate modelling, Building energy - Jan K. Marzinek
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics, Virus dynamics, Structural modeling, Drug discovery - Jason Lim
Research Interests: Hydrogel, Antimicrobial polymers, Supramolecular materials - Jason Png
Research Interests: Electromagnetic scattering, UVC LED safety and exposure effectiveness - Jonathan Huang
Research Interests: Environmental health, Reproductive and pediatric health, Disease susceptibility, Epidemiology - Marco Vignuzzi
Research Interests: RNA viruses, Virus evolution, Virology - Ning Li
Research Interests: Development of antimicrobial coatings and polymers - Qingfeng Chen
Research Interests: Humanized mouse model, Disease modelling, Drug testing, Drug development - Yi Yan Yang
Research Interests: Development of antifungal agents against AMR, Development of antiviral intranasal spray for prevention of viral infection
Surveillance
- Ady Suwardi
Research Interests: Aerosol Detection & Mitigation - Anqi Sng
Research Interests: Advanced Characterisation and Instrumentation - Chang Wei Kang
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Charmaine Tan
Research Interests: Behavioural modelling, Policy impact evaluation, Randomised controlled trials, Behavioural experiment design - Chayaporn Suphavilai
Research Interests: Cloud computational workflows and techniques - Chin Chun Ooi
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Dennis Wang
Research Interests: Disease surveillance, Co-morbidities, Genomics, Pathogenicity, Symptoms - Derrick Low
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Edwin Khoo
Research Interests: Numerical simulation (can be used for simulating SIR models) - Frank Eisenhaber
Research Interests: Genome annotation, Protein function discovery, Gene network and pathway modelling, Mutation assessment, Protein structure modelling - George Xu
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Hongying Li
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Hsiu-Yi Chen
Research Interests: Bioinformatic analysis - Igor N. Berezovsky
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Allostery, Diagnostics, Protein structure and function, Sequence analysis, Molecular simulations, Machine learning - Jason Huan
Research Interests: Databases of mined pandemic public data (demographics and EHR) - Joey Zhou
Research Interests: Social media analytics - John Common
Research Interests: Filaggrin, Atopic Dermatitis, Alopecia, Skin Microbiome - Joses Ho
Research Interests: Genomic Surveillance, Data Visualization, Biostatistics - Ken Cheng Shoong Chong
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, pharmacogenetics, mutation analysis, SARS-CoV 2 main protease - Minggang Zeng
Research Interests: Numerical simulation (can be used for simulating SIR models) - Minghao Chia
Research Interests: Microbiome function, Molecular biology, Genome characterization, Metagenome analysis - Neerja Karnani
Research Interests: Biomedical data analytics, Disease risk prediction modelling, Geospatial disease surveillance, Genomics and covid pandemic, Pandemic Public data mining - Niranjan Nagarajan
Research Interests: Genomic Surveillance, Antimicrobial Resistance, Metagenomics, Host-microbiome Interactions - Peter John Bond
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Protein structure and function, Molecular simulations, Coarse grained, Antibodies, Immune system - Prasanta Bhattacharya
Research Interests: Computational models, Human behaviour - Raj Kumar Gupta
Research Interests: Affective computing, Social media analytics, Disease surveillance - Rajaraman Kanagasabai
Research Interests: NLP, Social Media Analytics, Explainable AI, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Anomaly Detection - Raphael Tze Chuen Lee
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Emerging Variant, Mutation phenotype prediction - Rosa So
Research Interests: Signal processing, Multimodal AI, Digital health, Medical technologies - Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Protein Sequences, Structures, Evolution - Weidong Zhou
Research Interests: Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, Numerical modelling and simulation - Weidong Zhou
Research Interests: Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, Numerical modelling and simulation - Zhaoyu Ma
Research Interests: Digitalisation, connectivity - Zhengwei Ge
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation, CFD Specialist, Thermal Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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