Ghee Chuan Lai

Associate

2023

- Healthcare investment and portfolio management

Head, MedTech/Diagnostics/Digital Health, Innovation & Enterprise

2021 - 2023

- Strategic partnerships, project management and tech commercialization

Assistant Head, MedTech/Diagnostics/Digital Health, Innovation & Enterprise

2021 - 2021

Assistant Head, Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership office (BMSIPO)/ Industry Development Group

2020 - 2021

- Fostering public-private partnerships between medtech and healthtech companies, local academic and clinical community (A*STAR, Institutes of Higher Learning and Public Hospitals)

Research Fellow, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)

2017 - 2019

- Initiated and executed project that investigates polymicrobial interactions through pairwise interaction screens and longitudinal total RNA metagenomics sequencing - Led the collaboration with clinicians, postdocs and principal investigators from Singapore, Israel and UK in project on fetal immunity - Authored microbiome component of the cancer immunogram grant worth > $10m. - Supervised 3 students / technicians in laboratory research

PhD Candidate

2010 - 2016

- Spearheaded collaboration between 2 principal investigators across departments for thesis - Discovered novel targets important for bacterial survival under antibiotic stress - Identified novel genetic factors important for bacterial cell envelope homeostasis - Established a microfluidics-assisted cell screening platform for intracellular delivery (US Patent No. 62/533,801)

Research Officer

2009 - 2010

- Conducted biophysical modelling on intracellular protein transport in neuronal cells

Research Assistant

2008 - 2009

- Investigated the structural and dynamic properties of amyloid beta mutants in Alzheimer’s disease research

Combat Medic

2004 - 2006

6th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment