James Mah is an academic clinician currently working in Data Mining Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore specialising in Clinical Bioinformatics. In the past, he was the Principal Investigator of the Translational Interface Programme Projects at the Oncology Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His academic achievements include Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, London, UK, and Bachelor of Science in Immunopathology and Infection, London, UK. He holds a National Science PhD Scholarship from A*STAR. His current area of interest is in the use of clinical bioinformatics and data mining techniques in novel SNP discovery and their effects in health and disease.
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Tien Y. Wong is currently Professor and Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Singapore National Eye Centre. He is concurrently Professor and Director, Retinal Vascular Imaging Centre, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the University of Melbourne. Prof Wong leads a research program on retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, early retinal vascular changes and the use of novel retinal imaging techniques to predict cardiovascular disease. He has published more than 350 papers and given more than 100 lectures around the world. Prof Wong is on the Editorial Board of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (2005-present), the American Journal of Ophthalmology (2006-present), Ophthalmic Epidemiology (2006-present), and Diabetes Care (2009-present). For his research, he has been recognized internationally and nationally with numerous awards, including the Sandra Doherty Award from the American Heart Association (2004), the Woodward Medal from the University of Melbourne (2005), the Alcon Research Institute Award (2005), the Novartis Prize in Diabetes (Global, Young Investigator, 2005), the Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research, Australia (2006), the Australian Society of Medical Research AMGEN Medical Research of the Year Award (2007), the Singapore Translational Researcher Award (STaR) (2008) and NUS Outstanding Researcher Award (2009).
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Wayne Mitchell is founding Group Leader, Bioinformatics, and was founding Group Leader, Informatics, at Experimental Therapeutics Centre. He is former Senior Scientist, Genome Institute of Singapore where he led eight FTE programmers and bioinformaticians comprising the Research Computing Group in the department of Information and Mathematical Sciences. Before coming to Singapore Dr. Mitchell was Scientific Founder and Chief Genomics Officer, Tao Biosciences, Alameda, CA. ( a “nano-cap” Bay Area biotech startup) where he crafted a balanced computational/ experimental discovery platform designed to advance Tao’ s discovery mission in the area of tRNA centric antibacterial drug targets. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy, in Parasitology and Infectious Disease at University of California Berkeley Division where he was University Fellow. He hold two bachelors degrees, the Bachelor of Arts, Biology (magna cum laude) from University of Massachusetts, Boston and the Artium Baccalaureus, History (cum laude), from Harvard University. In 1989 as a MacArthur Foundation Breadth Fellow he studied “Diplomacy by Other Means: Bioweapons in the Age of Molecular Biology”. Dr. Mitchell is Associate Professor (Adjunct), Division of Information Sciences, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is affiliated with the Bioinformatics Research Centre (BIRC) at NTU. Dr. Mitchell’s scientific interests combine experimental and computational biology in the specific areas of Comparative Genomics & Bioinformatics, Parasitology & Infectious Disease (especially therapeutic interventions therein). He is also interested in science policy, in its political economy, and in the entrepreneurial process as it relates to scientific enterprise in both the private and the public sector.
KC Lun is a medical informatics pioneer in Asia. His accomplishments include hosting MEDINFO 89 Singapore, chairing MEDINFO 92 Editorial Committee, founding APAMI in 1994 and assuming the Presidency of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) in 2001. In recognition for his contributions to IMIA, he was made an IMIA Fellow in 2004. He served for 26 years as a faculty of the National University of Singapore School of Medicine and also held positions as Director of the NSTB (now A*STAR) funded Medical Informatics Research Programme and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics. His pioneering efforts in medical e-learning at NUS won him the Teaching Excellence Award in 1998. In 1995, he launched Cyberspace Hospital, the first virtual hospital on the World Wide Web, In 2001, he joined Nanyang Technological University to help start its School of Biological Sciences, serving as founding Vice-Dean (2001-2005) and later, NTU Dean of Admission (2005). Dr Lun has undertaken numerous consultancies in biostatistics and health informatics for WHO, IMIA, IDRC, UNDP and several other international agencies. He has also served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and Methods of Information in Medicine. For his contributions to the development of medical informatics nationally and internationally, Dr Lun was awarded the Singapore Internationale Award (2001) and the Excellence for Singapore Award (2002). Dr Lun set up Gateway Consulting in October 2006 and concurrently holds an adjunct professor position at the School of Biological Sciences, NTU.
Chris Molloy, VP Corporate Development, IDBS. Chris joined IDBS in 2008. He was formerly Chief Operating Officer at MerLion Pharmaceuticals, an award-winning international R&D biotech headquartered in Singapore, where he was also responsible for strategic partnering and communications. Prior to this role, Chris had a fourteen year pre-clinical research career at GSK where he also held responsibility for co-ordinating IT and automation portfolios across screening and lead optimisation worldwide.
Caroline Lee graduated with PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA and did her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Michael Gottesman at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She returned to Singapore in 1999 and now holds joint appointments at the National University of Singapore, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School as well as the National Cancer Centre. She is also a mentor at the NUS-Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS). She sits on some editorial boards and has more than 60 publications. She also won the SingHealth Foundation Investigator Excellence Award 2006.
Su Yi obtained his PhD
in Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore in 2003.
Since 2000, he has been employed under the Institute of High Performance Computing A*STAR where he is now a Research Scientist and Assistant Programme Manager of the Advanced Computing Programme. His research activities involve automatic simulation and analysis of micro-electro-mechanical devices, computational geometrical modelling, automatic mesh generation and processing, and scientific visualisation of complex models. In recent years, Dr. Su Yi has worked with medical practitioners from the National Heart Centre and National University Hospital to apply computational modelling techniques in clinical scenarios. These include development of indices to measure cardiac function and development of 4D modelling techniques to simulate hemodynamics within the heart.
Hwee Kuan Lee is a Principal Investigator of the Imaging Informatics
Division in Bioinformatics Institute. Hwee Kuan's current research focuses
on analysis of live cells images. His group's efforts contribute to the
trend towards quantitative biology, in which scientific hypothesis are
based on statistically significant objective data. Hwee Kuan obtained his
Ph.D. in 2001 in Theoretical Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, he
was working on Monte Carlo simulations of liquid-liquid phase transitions
and quasicrystals. He then held a joint postdoctoral position with Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (USA) and University of Georgia where he worked
on developing advanced Monte Carlo methods and nano-magnetism. In 2003,
Hwee Kuan moved to Tokyo Metropolitan University where he developed
solutions to extremely long time scaled problems and a reweighting method
for nonequilibrium systems. In 2005 he joined Data Storage Institute,
investigating novel recording methods using magnetic resonance. He joined
Bioinformatics Institute in 2006.
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