members
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Antónia MONTEIRO, President
Antónia Monteiro is a professor at Yale-NUS College and an associate professor at National University of Singapore. She combines tools from ethology, population genetics, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to understand the evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns. She was awarded NRF Investigatorship (2019-2024).
Philip INGHAM, Honorary Life President
Philip Ingham is Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Professor of Developmental Biology at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. A former Chairman of the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) and President of the International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB), his research has focused on the mechanisms and functions of the Hedgehog signaling pathway, using Drosophila and zebrafish as model systems. An elected member of EMBO and Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded the Medal of the Genetics Society in 2004 and the BSDB Waddington Medal in 2014.
On Sun LAU, Vice President
On Sun Lau is an assistant professor at National University of Singapore. His research interests cover stomatal development, environmental signaling, transcriptional regulation, plant cell and developmental biology.
ZENG Li, Secretary
Zeng Li is is the principal investigator of the Neural Stem Cell Research Laboratory at National Neuroscience Institute and an associate professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. She uses in vitro and in vivo assays to study Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
Norris Ray DUNN, Assistant Secretary
Norris Ray Dunn is an associate professor of regenerative medicine and developmental biology at LKCMedicine, Nanyang Technological University, and holds a joint appointment with the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology. He is also the President of the Stem Cell Society Singapore. His research interests are endodermal development and differentiation.
Tom CARNEY, Treasurer
Tom Carney is an assistant professor of developmental biology at LKCMedicine, Nanyang Technological University, and the principal investigator of the Dermal-Epidermal Interface Laboratory. He focuses on epidermal development and disease, with particular interest in the formation and signalling of the dermal-epidermal interface.
Hong-wen TANG, Assistant Treasurer
Hong-Wen Tang is an assistant professor of Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program at Duke-NUS Medical School. His research interests focus on understanding how oncogenic signaling networks rewire RNA metabolism to alter physiological functions during aging and tumorigenesis by using Drosophila, mouse, and cells as model systems.
Zhiyuan GONG, Executive Committee Board
Zhiyuan Gong is a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at National University of Singapore. His research areas are on zebrafish developmental biology, zebrafish models for liver cancers, fish toxicogenomics and biomonitoring. Prof Gong was awarded the Faculty of Science Outstanding Scientist Award 2017.
Bruno REVERSADE, Executive Committee Board
Bruno Reversade is a professor and research director at A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology. He is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Human Embryology & Genetics. He studies numerous human disorders affecting embryogenesis, metabolism, ageing, cognition and familial cancers. He was awarded the A*STAR investigatorship (2008) and EMBO Young Investigator (2012).
Hongyan WANG, Executive Committee Board
Hongyan Wang is a professor and Deputy Director of Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Program at Duke-NUS Medical School. She specialises in using Drosophila and mammalian neural stem cells (NSCs) to model neurodevelopmental disorders and brain tumours. Prof. Wang is an elected European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Associate Member.
Christoph WINKLER, Executive Committee Board
Christoph Winkler is an associate professor and assistant head of department of biological sciences at National University of Singapore. His research interests are in developmental biology, neurogenetics, and molecular cell biology.
Fengwei YU, Executive Committee Board
Fengwei Yu is a Senior Principal Investigator at Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory. His lab studies developmental, cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal pruning and remodelling in flies. He was awarded the National Young Scientist Award in 2007.
Sudipto ROY, Executive Committee Board
Sudipto Roy is a Senior Principal Investigator at A*STAR and an adjunct associate professor with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Paediatrics of the National University of Singapore. His current research focus include cilia formation and function, and tissue regeneration. He was awarded the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal by the President of India in 2002.
Fumio MOTEGI, Executive Committee Board
Fumio Motegi is an assistant professor at the Mechanobiology Institute at National University of Singapore. He studies the mechanobiology of cell polarity establishment, and soma-germline fate determination.
Christine CHEUNG, Executive Committee Board
Christine Cheung is the Nanyang Assistant Professor and Provost's Chair in Medicine at LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. She is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Molecular and Vascular Medicine and researches on personalized vascular models, the genetic basis of vascular ageing, and vascular disease biomarkers.
Yun XIA, Executive Committee Board
Yun Xia is the Nanyang Assistant Professor at LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, and the principal investigator of the Stem Cell Lineage Specification & Organ Regeneration Laboratory. She works on stem cell in vitro lineage specification with a special focus on generating kidney-related cells.
Xiaomeng WANG, Executive Committee Board
Xiaomeng Wang is an associate professor of molecular medicine at LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. She is interested in the role of TGFβ signalling in development and under disease conditions, with the aim of gaining novel insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms that modulate, inhibit and promote blood vessel formation.