List of Researchers

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Duke-NUS Medical School

Dr Adam Claridge-Chang 
Areas of expertise: Emotional behaviors, mental disorders

Dr David Lawrence Silver
Areas of expertise: Lipid metabolism

Dr David Marc Virshup
Areas of expertise: Wnt signaling, cancer

Dr Hong-Wen Tang
Areas of expertise: RNA metabolism, autophagy

Dr Hong Jing Han
Areas of expertise: Cancer and chromatin biology

Dr Hongyan Wang
Areas of expertise: Neural stem cells, brain development

Dr Jonathan Crowston
Areas of expertise: Glaucoma and other optic neuropathies

Dr Jun Nishiyama
Areas of expertise: Synaptic signaling, neuropsychiatric disorders

Dr Mian Cao
Areas of expertise: Endocytosis, Parkinson's disease

Dr Naiyang Fu
Areas of expertise: Epithelial stem cells

Dr Shawn Je
Areas of expertise: Angelman syndrome, Parkinson's disease

Dr Singh Manvendra Kumar
Areas of expertise: Development of the cardiovascular system

Dr Su-Chun Zhang
Areas of expertise: Neural differentiation, motor neuron diseases

Dr Xiaomeng Wang
Areas of expertise: Fibrovascular complications, eye diseases

Dr Xuyang Sun
Areas of expertise: Human nervous system development, neurodegeneration

Genome Institute of Singapore

Dr Bruno Reversade
Areas of expertise: Genetic diseases, the development of the human embryo, novel hormones

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB)

Dr Bruno Reversade
Areas of expertise: Genetic diseases, the development of the human embryo, novel hormones

Dr Sudipto Roy
Areas of expertise: Cilia and Ciliopathies

KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH)

Dr Tan Ene Choo
Areas of expertise: Genetics of neurological & congenital disorders, Genetic variants in susceptibility to multi-factorial disorders and traits, pattern of genomic variations in the human genome

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Dr Christine Cheung
Areas of expertise: Vesicular development, diseases, and ageing

Assoc Prof Francesc Xavier Roca Castella
Areas of expertise: RNA Splicing

Dr Norris Ray Dunn
Areas of expertise: Endodermal development and differentiation

Dr Philip William Ingham
Areas of expertise: Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway, skeletal muscle

Dr Tom James Carney
Areas of expertise: Embryonic development, tissue patterning

Dr Yasunori Saheki
Areas of expertise: Lipid homeostasis in neurons, neurodegeneration

Dr Yun Xia
Areas of expertise: Kidney development and diseases

National Heart Centre of Singapore (NHCS)

Dr Derek Hausenloy
Areas of expertise: Cardiology

National Neuroscience Institute (NNI)

Dr Zeng Li
Areas of expertise: Neural stem cells, neurodegenerative diseases

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Dr Christoph Winkler
Areas of expertise: Developmental signaling, axonal transport

Dr John Chua Jia En 
Areas of expertise: Disorders affecting cortical development, establishment and function of neuronal circuitry

Dr Lai Poh San
Areas of expertise: Translating genetics and genomics for clinical applications, Behaviour genetics, exploring psychosocial, ageing, lifestyle, behavioural, biological and genetic determinants related to various traits

Dr Xue Shifeng 
Areas of expertise: Craniofacial and skeletal dysplasia

Singapore General Hospital (SGH)

Dr Zhao Yi
Areas of expertise: Rare disorders

Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL)

Dr Dan Zhang
Areas of expertise: ER/PM contact sites, cell polarity

Dr Fengwei Yu
Areas of expertise: Neuronal development and remodeling

Dr Jun Wei Pek
Areas of expertise: Non-coding RNAs, germline development

Dr Tong-Wey Koh
Areas of expertise: Neurodegenerative disease

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