Invited Eminent Scientists

Dr. Guo Huili

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Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS)

• Received B.A. degree in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge in 2005
  
• Received Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011
  
• Recipient of National Science Scholarship from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
  
• Ambassador for the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programme run by the Singapore Committee for UN Women since 2013
  
• Recipient of the L’Oréal Singapore For Women In Science National Fellowship (2014) and the Young Scientist Award (2016)
  

Prof Lim Xin Hong

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Principal Investigator at the Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR;
Adjunct Assistant Professor at the LKC School of Medicine in Nanyang Technological University
and the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Programme at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

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• Graduated with Highest Distinction at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006
  
• Pursued entrepreneurial studies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2012
  
• Received Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford University in 2013
  
• Recipient of the A*STAR Young Scientist Award, A*STAR National Science Scholarship and the Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) Investigatorship in Skin Biology
  
• Holds a Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business
  

Dr. Michael Sullivan

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Department Director at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR;
Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS

• Received B.A. degree cum laude in Chemistry, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
  
• Received Ph.D. in Chemistry at  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  
• Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the  Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia
  
• Worked as a Research Fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance, NUS
  
• Worked as an Assistant Programme Manager and Team Leader, Computational Chemistry, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR
  

Prof Jackie Yi-Ru Ying

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Executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR;
Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Graduated with B.E. degree summa cum laude from The Cooper Union in 1987
  
• Obtained M.A. from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991.
  
• Promoted to the rank of full professor at MIT at the age of 35
  
• Returned to Singapore in 2003 to serve as the first executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR
  
• Elected to the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
  
• Currently has more than 170 patents granted or pending and 320 papers published
  
• Recently named a Fellow of the United States National Academy of Inventors
  

Dr Jonathan Loh

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Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR

• Faculty member of the Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering, NUS
  
• Faculty member of Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
  
• Received the  Quest Technology award, Philip Yeo prize, Singapore Young Scientist award, Singapore Youth award, A*STAR Investigatorship award, World Technology Network Fellowship and the MIT TR35 Asia Pacific award
  
• Executive committee member of the Stem Cell Society Singapore (SCSS)
  
• Executive committee member of the Singapore Association for the Advancement of Science (SAAS)
  

Prof Tan Choon Hong

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Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, President of Singapore National Institute of Chemistry;
Director of CN Yang Scholars’ Programme

• Received his BSc(Hons) First Class from NUS in 1995 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999
  
• Research Associate at Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
  
• Joined the Department of Chemistry, NUS as Assistant Professor in 2003 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2010,
  
• Joined Nanyang Technological University in 2012 and promoted to Professor in 2016
  
• President of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC)