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Epidemic Preparedness Researchers

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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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