Daniel TEH, PhD is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore and is affliated to the Bia-Echo Asia Center for Reproductive Longevity & Equality (ACRLE). He is one of the 2020 Singapore’s National Medical Research Council, Young Investigator Award Recipient. The laboratory of Dr. Teh, focuses on inter-disciplinary translational research of nanotechnology and material science in biomedical application. Dr. Teh was the first to discover the upconversion optical waveguide property in hydrogel, translating upconversion from a basic science concept to a medical based implantable. The technology is now being used as a wireless light delivery implantable in photodynamic therapy to treat solid tumour in trials. He also devises nanoparticles for applications as visualization probes in molecular and cellular processes in neurons. Most recently, he led his team to win the Best Teamwork Award in the Singapore’s LeanLaunchpad Medtech Category 2020. He works closely with clinicians, biomedical engineers and scientists.

Dr. Sanghoon Lee

Sanghoon Lee is an Assistant Professor in the department of robotics engineering, Daegu Geongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). He received his B.S. degree from the department of electronic material engineering at Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea in 2009, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He was a research fellow at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he joined DGIST and is a director of the Neuro-interfaced Robotics Lab (https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.nirobot.org&umid=29a2debc-75fa-4022-b90a-b0dee9b515e7&auth=8d3ccd473d52f326e51c0f75cb32c9541898e5d5-25c6316ee09a3683cca18ca7c26b7062c1f59248). His research interests include neural interfaces-based neuroprosthetics and bioelectronic medicine, as well as neural devices and peripheral neuromodulation

Dr. Su Xinyi

Xinyi Su, MB BChir PhD, is an ophthalmologist and vitreo-retinal surgeon at the National University Hospital of Singapore. She is the Divisional Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB, A*STAR) and Research Director of the Department of Ophthalmology (NUS). She runs a broad research program in retinal diseases as Senior Principal Investigator at the Translational Retinal Therapeutics Lab at IMCB and Clinician-Scientist at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). Her research in retinal therapeutics has been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, among others. She received the Asia Pacific Vitreo-retinal Society LDP Gold Medal Award in 2021, the Eye and Vision Health Distinguished Award in 2021 and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology SSO Young Ophthalmologist Award for two consecutive years, 2019 and 2020. Xinyi has a career total of >SGD 20 million in competitive research grants. She currently leads several translational research programs in developing biomaterials for retinal therapeutics and retinal stem cell regenerative therapy.

Dr. Sze Y. Set

Sze Y. Set received a BEng (first-class honours) and a PhD from the University of Southampton, UK. He was awarded the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998. He joined a startup in Atlanta, Georgia, US, as a senior R&D engineer in 2000, and in 2005, he was appointed the CEO and CTO of a University of Tokyo startup to commercialize university technologies. In 2016, he was appointed as an associate professor at RCAST, the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Set’s research focuses on carbon nanotube photonics, ultrashort pulsed fiber lasers, ultrafast nonlinear optics, bio-photonics, optical communication, fiber optic sensing, and laser 3D imaging. He also teaches courses in university entrepreneurship. He was the first to demonstrate the use of a carbon-nanotube for laser mode-locking in 2003, and has contributed to 10 patents and over 200 academic publications in international journals and conferences. Dr. Set is a fellow of the OPTICA (Formerly OSA), the Deputy Committee Member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

Dr. Set was elected as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University in October 2022. He is currently affiliated to the Cambridge Graphene Centre, a world-leading center of excellence for research in graphene and related materials technologies.

Speaker/Presentation

Time in CST

Speaker Introduction

4:00-4:10pm

Dr. Daniel TEH Boon Loong

A Flexible Hydrogel Solution to Wireless Photodynamic Therapy in Glioblastoma Multiforme Mice Model

4:10 - 4:30 pm

Dr. Su Xinyi

Thermogel Technology for Retinal Translational Therapeutics

4:30- 4:50 pm

Dr. Sanghoon Lee

Mechano-Neuromodulation of the Peripheral Nervous System

4:50 - 5:10 pm

Dr. Sze Y. Set

5:10 - 5:30 pm

Q&A

5:30 - 6:00 pm