Experience

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre

• Singapore
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Work in biosystems and micromechanics interdisciplinary group, develop inertial microfluidic cell separation technology and applications in biomedical fields.1. Developed a clinically practical cell sorting method to isolate zonal chondrocytes for repairing articular cartilage with natural stratified architecture, and demonstrated its superiority comparing to current clinical method with animal models.2. Invented a selective culture expansion method for growing large quantifies of mesenchymal stem cells enhanced with chondrogenic potential.3. Designed and developed an automated continuous perfusion cell culture system with a clogging-free microfluidic cell retention device, and demonstrated its capacity of enhancing the production of suspension and adherent cells.4. Invented a re-circulating cell sorting method for purifying reticulocytes from erythroid cell culture, and used it as a platform to study Plasmodium vivax infection.5. Developed an inertial-magnetic cell sorting protocol to extract extremely rare circulating tumour cells from human blood with 80% purity and 80% recovery rate for cancer detection and study. Show less

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

  Work in infectious disease interdisciplinary group, explore the mechanism of lung tissue repair after influenza virus infection.1. Investigated the cellular mechanism of lung tissue repair after influenza virus infection with a high-content image analysis algorithms and genetic lineage tracing in transgenic mouse model.2. Identified the effect of aging on different lung progenitor cells in lung repair after influenza virus infection using high-content image analysis algorithm set.