Team
• Dr Elaine Chew, Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow
• Moses Tandiono, Research Associate
• Michelle Lian Mulan, Research Associate
• Dr Heng Yue Jing, Research Fellow
• Ashim Paul Deb, PhD student
• Chang Chu Hua, PhD student
• Jolyn Lim Jia Jia, PhD student
Assistant Professor Foo Jia Nee is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She is also a Visiting Scientist at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Deputy Director of
Brain Bank Singapore.
Asst Prof Foo did her Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Biotechnology at Imperial College London and her PhD in Genetics at the Yale University School of Medicine. During her PhD training at Yale with Prof. Richard P. Lifton, she analysed rare coding variants in renal salt handling genes for a role in blood pressure variation and hypertension risk in the Framingham Heart Study cohort. She did her postdoctoral training at the GIS, working with Dr Liu Jianjun on whole-exome sequencing and genome-wide association studies of Parkinson’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, IgA nephropathy and other rare skin and childhood neurological diseases. She has published over 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Genetics, JAMA Neurology, Cell Stem Cell, American Journal of Human Genetics, Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics and Nature Reviews Neurology.
She was one of the recipients of the inaugural A*STAR Biomedical Research Council Young Investigator Grant in 2013, and the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) fellowship in 2016.