Epidemic Preparedness Researchers




Detection
- Ankit Kumar Das
Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, AI for Disease Detection and Progression
Research Interests: Microfluidics sample preparation, Point-of-care testing, Molecular diagnostics, Immunoassay, blood analysis
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Genome Characterization, Antimicrobial Resistance, Metagenomics, Precision Medicine
Research Interests: Molecular diagnosis, Automation, Robotics, Electronics, PCR- Farid Ghadessy
Research Interests: Enzyme engineering, Molecular diagnostics, Biosensors
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimodal AI, Community Screening- Huang Weimin
Research Interests: AI and ML, Medical Image Analysis, Image Diagnosis, Multi-modal risk prediction
Research Interests: Digital Biomarkers, Symptom Detection, Decentralized Clinical Research
Research Interests: Immunology, Pathology, Immunotherapy, Spatial biology
Research Interests: Sensors, Biosensors, Nanomaterials, Environmental surveillance, Disease surveillance
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Telemedicine, Medical Image Analysis
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis- Masafumi Inoue
Research Interests: Infectious diseases, Molecular diagnostics, Cancer biomarkers, Point-of-care testing, Emerging diseases
Research Interests: Biosensors, Nanomaterials, Environmental Surveillance, Bacteria, Viruses
Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI for Detection and Risk Estimation
Research Interests: Metagenomic Sequencing, Point-of-care testing
Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, AI for Disease Detection and Progression
Research Interests: Biosensors, Nanomaterials Disease surveillance, Environmental surveillance- Wang FuKe
Research Interests: Additive manufacturing, Functional materials, Bioengineering, Biosensors, Nanomaterials
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis- Wang Yue
Research Interests: Fungal pathogens, Candida species, Antifungal resistance mechanisms, Fungal infection models, Fungal genome study
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis
Research Interests: Metagenomic Sequencing, Bioinformatics
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Multimodal AI for Healthcare, Medical Image Analysis
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Physics-based AI, AI for Diagnostics and Prognostics
Research Interests: Wearable Biosensors- Zhen Liangli
Research Interests: AI for Disease Diagnostics, Medical Image Analysis - Zheng Xinting
Research Interests: Sensors, nanomaterials, Wearables, Antibacterial, Disease surveillance
Intervention
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Drug resistance, Assay development- Alison Lee
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities
Research Interests: Manufacturing of mRNA-based modalities, Antibody discovery and development- Andy Tan
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities - Bhanu Prakash KN
Research Interests: Clinical Data Analytics & Radiomics, Population atlas based analysis, Neuroimaging analysis, Metabolic studies in Geriatric population
Research Interests: Cardiac organoid model, disease modelling and therapeutics development, Mitotherapy, machine learning, Anti-ageing
Research Interests: Anti-bacterial Drug discovery, Peptide Chemistry
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Membrane active antimicrobial design, Development, Modelling, Simulations- Cheng-I Wang
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Antibody engineering
Research Interests: Malaria, High Throughput Screening, Drug Discovery, Target ID
Research Interests: Microbial recombinant protein/vaccine expression, Recombinant protein display on probiotic bacteria, Manufacturing of mRNA-based modalities
Research Interests: Aerosol Drug Delivery and Formulation, Combination Therapy, Formulation of mRNA-based modalities
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Preclinical Development, Bioanalysis, Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, Chemistry and manufacturing
Research Interests: Viral vector, Process development, Culture media development, Bioreactor scale up
Research Interests: Vector borne infection, Infectious diseases, Immunology, Neuroimmunology, Virology
Research Interests: Virology, Host pathogen interactions, Immunology, Host factors, Vaccines- Hao Fan
Research Interests: In silico ligand prediction, Protein structure modeling, MD simulation
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Membrane active antimicrobial design, Development, Modelling, Simulations- Jinmiao Chen
Research Interests: Single-cell multi/spatial-omics with AI for precision immunology research
Research Interests: Anti-bacterial Drug discovery, Medicinal Chemistry
Research Interests: Viral vaccine, Recombinant protein, Culture media development
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics simulation, Computational chemistry, Structural Biology
Research Interests: Immunology, Signal Transduction, Infectious Diseases- Matthew Zirui Tay
Research Interests: Infectious disease, Antibodies, Microfluidics, Bioassays, Antimicrobial resistance
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics simulation, Computational chemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Drug design
Research Interests: Infectious disease, Antibodies, Droplet microfluidics, Bioassays- Prabha Sampath
Research Interests: MicroRNAs, Wound healing, RNA Therapeutics
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, RNA biology, RNA structure, multi-comics
Research Interests: Sensors, Platform development, Nanomaterials, Environmental surveillance
Research Interests: Viral vaccine, Viral vector, Recombinant protein, Process and media development, Bioreactor scale up- Shanshan Wu Howland
Research Interests: Transcriptomics, Single Cell Multi-omics, Immune Repertoire, Spatial Transcriptomics
Research Interests: Human models of neurodegeneration, Neural organoids, Neuronal metabolism, Mitochondrial therapy, Neurotropic viruses- Shigeki Sugii
Research Interests: Novel short peptides against AMR strains, Anti-microbial effects of differentiating adipose-derived stem cells and their extracellular vesicles (EVs/exosomes), In vitro and in vivo models of wound-associated infections, Dual bactericidal and regenerative treatments
Research Interests: Infectious Diseases, Drug discovery, Diagnostics, Vaccines
Research Interests: Novel short peptides against AMR strains, Anti-microbial effects of differentiating adipose-derived stem cells and their extracellular vesicles (EVs/exosomes), In vitro and in vivo models of wound-associated infections, Dual bactericidal and regenerative treatments- Adeline Chua
Research Interests: Drug discovery, Drug resistance, Assay development - Stefan Oehlers
Research Interests: Mycobacteria, Cryptococci, Host-directed therapy, Vascular pathology, Zebrafish infection model - Thomas Dawson
Research Interests: Malassezia Furfur, Seborrhea, Hair Follicle, Skin Microbiome - Wei Leong Chew
Research Interests: Nucleic acid therapeutics, CRISPR, Adeno-associated virus, New diagnostic tech modalities
Research Interests: Virus isolation and purification, recombinant protein vaccine purification and analytics, inactivated virus vaccine purification and analytics, viral vector vaccine purification and analytics, mRNA vaccine purification and analytics
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Biodegradable, Hydrogel, Sustainability- Xuezhi Bi
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities
Research Interests: Molecular modelling, Druggability assssment, Computational drug discovery, Fragment-based design, Molecular dynamics- Yee Joo Tan
Research Interests: Hepatitis virus, newly emerged virus, reverse genetics virus system, Host-targeted agents - Yew Wai Leong
Research Interests: Microbiology, Immunology, Cell Biology - Ying Swan Ho
Research Interests: Analytical development for mRNA-based modalities
Research Interests: Cell line development, Antibody engineering, Antibody production
Prevention
Research Interests: Electromagnetic scattering, Urban microclimate modelling, Building energy
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics, Virus dynamics, Structural modeling, Drug discovery- Jason Lim
Research Interests: Hydrogel, Antimicrobial polymers, Supramolecular materials
Research Interests: Electromagnetic scattering, UVC LED safety and exposure effectiveness
Research Interests: Environmental health, Reproductive and pediatric health, Disease susceptibility, Epidemiology
Research Interests: RNA viruses, Virus evolution, Virology
Research Interests: Development of antimicrobial coatings and polymers
Research Interests: Humanized mouse model, Disease modelling, Drug testing, Drug development
Research Interests: Development of antifungal agents against AMR, Development of antiviral intranasal spray for prevention of viral infection
Surveillance
Research Interests: Aerosol Detection & Mitigation- Anqi Sng
Research Interests: Advanced Characterisation and Instrumentation - Chang Wei Kang
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation
Research Interests: Behavioural modelling, Policy impact evaluation, Randomised controlled trials, Behavioural experiment design- Chayaporn Suphavilai
Research Interests: Cloud computational workflows and techniques - Chin Chun Ooi
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation
Research Interests: Disease surveillance, Co-morbidities, Genomics, Pathogenicity, Symptoms- Derrick Low
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation
Research Interests: Numerical simulation (can be used for simulating SIR models)
Research Interests: Genome annotation, Protein function discovery, Gene network and pathway modelling, Mutation assessment, Protein structure modelling- George Xu
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Hongying Li
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation - Hsiu-Yi Chen
Research Interests: Bioinformatic analysis
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Allostery, Diagnostics, Protein structure and function, Sequence analysis, Molecular simulations, Machine learning- Jason Huan
Research Interests: Databases of mined pandemic public data (demographics and EHR) - Joey Zhou
Research Interests: Social media analytics - John Common
Research Interests: Filaggrin, Atopic Dermatitis, Alopecia, Skin Microbiome
Research Interests: Genomic Surveillance, Data Visualization, Biostatistics
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, pharmacogenetics, mutation analysis, SARS-CoV 2 main protease
Research Interests: Numerical simulation (can be used for simulating SIR models)- Minghao Chia
Research Interests: Microbiome function, Molecular biology, Genome characterization, Metagenome analysis - Neerja Karnani
Research Interests: Biomedical data analytics, Disease risk prediction modelling, Geospatial disease surveillance, Genomics and covid pandemic, Pandemic Public data mining
Research Interests: Genomic Surveillance, Antimicrobial Resistance, Metagenomics, Host-microbiome Interactions
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Protein structure and function, Molecular simulations, Coarse grained, Antibodies, Immune system- Prasanta Bhattacharya
Research Interests: Computational models, Human behaviour - Raj Kumar Gupta
Research Interests: Affective computing, Social media analytics, Disease surveillance
Research Interests: NLP, Social Media Analytics, Explainable AI, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Anomaly Detection
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Emerging Variant, Mutation phenotype prediction- Rosa So
Research Interests: Signal processing, Multimodal AI, Digital health, Medical technologies
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Protein Sequences, Structures, Evolution- Weidong Zhou
Research Interests: Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, Numerical modelling and simulation
Research Interests: Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, Numerical modelling and simulation
Research Interests: Digitalisation, connectivity
Research Interests: Environmental transmission and mitigation, CFD Specialist, Thermal Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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