Guan Xueli

Education PhD, National University of Singapore, 2009 BSc (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2005 Assistant Professor Guan Xue Li is an Assistant Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, and an awardee of the 2016 Nanyang Assistant Professorship. Asst Prof Guan obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2009. She was a recipient of an EMBO short term fellowship during her PhD to work in University of Geneva, and further pursued her postdoctoral training in systems biology within a SystemsX.ch consortium, LipidX, in Switzerland. In 2011, she secured the competitive Ambizione career grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became a Group Leader of Lipidomics and Systems Biology in Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Asst Prof Guan is internationally recognised for her contributions in pioneering novel lipidomics approaches for systems biology studies of lipid metabolism and functions. From model organisms, she has translated her works on lipidomics and systems biology to medically relevant systems, including microbes. She is interested in driving technological developments to capture the complex lipid metabolic networks and to undertake a multidisciplinary approach to address the functional roles of microbial and host lipids in human health and diseases, as well as to identify novel drug targets and biomarkers for infectious diseases. The present Guan group in NTU is actively collaborating with local research institutions and healthcare groups, as well as international academic and industry partners. Asst Prof Guan has published over 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and three book chapters. She is currently the Vice President of Early Career Representation in the International Lipidomics Society (ILS). She also serves as a member of the steering committee for the ILS interest groups, Microbial lipids, and Preanalytics.