Christine Cheung

Assoc Prof Christine Cheung is an Associate Professor of Vascular Biomedicine and holds the Provost's Chair in Medicine at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. She received her PhD in Cardiovascular and Stem Cell Medicine from the University of Cambridge and graduated with First Class Honors in BEng from Imperial College London. Her research in vascular disease biology has garnered recognitions within the scientific community. In 2019, she became a member of the World Economic Forum Young Scientists Community and was recognised as an Honoree of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore (Medical Innovations). Her contributions to the field earned her the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Grant, Life Sciences Fellowship from L'Oréal Singapore For Women in Science Fellowship 2018, and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Independent Fellowship in 2012. She was also honoured with the Young Investigator Prize from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research and the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award by The American Heart Association. Currently, she serves as the Director of PhD Programme and is an active executive committee member of the Stem Cell Society Singapore.