Marie Loh Chiew Shia

Team • Jacqueline Tai Fei Li, Research Assistant Assistant Professor Marie Loh is an Assistant Professor in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Statistics, as well as a Masters in Bioinformatics and a Masters in Statistics. She obtained her PhD in Pharmacogenetics from the School of Surgery, University of Western Australia in 2012, where her work was focused on genetic variations between East Asians and Caucasians that influence disease risk and treatment outcomes. Prior to joining LKCMedicine, she was a Principal Investigator at the Translational Laboratories in Genetic Medicine (TLGM) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and a Research Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She led the Integrative Omics group which focuses on the identification of biomarkers and mechanisms underlying cardiometabolic diseases and associated disturbances, with a specific interest in epigenetics and transethnic studies. Asst Prof Loh is a molecular epidemiologist with a long-standing interest in the role of genetics and epigenetics underlying ethnic differences in risk and outcome observed in complex diseases. She has received several awards for her work in transethnic studies including the ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research (Semi-finalist) and the Young Investigator Award by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). She has contributed to more than 100 publications in journals such as Nature Genetics and Nature and is involved in multiple local and international collaborations.