Bio
Clinical pharmacologist and biomedical engineer with decades of experience in pharmaceutical research, drug development, drug regulation, pharmacogenomics and health informatics in the government (US NIH, US FDA and Singapore Health Sciences Authority), industry (Human Genome Sciences), non-profit sector (Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute) and private consultancy (biotechnology companies in the US, Europe and Singapore). Dr. Sung has broad and in-depth experience on drug development from drug discovery to Phase 4 trials, has contributed to filings of ten INDs of biotherapeutics, evaluated IND and NDA submissions at FDA CDR and researched EMA drug evaluations, and serves as Duke-NUS faculty for the Graduate Certificate Program for Pharmaceutical Regulation. Currently, Dr. Sung is focused on harmonising health records to facilitate their use to generate real world evidence (FAIR=findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) while protecting patient privacy, by using the OMOP Common Data Model developed and supported by the global Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) Community. A particular goal is to increase the amount of FAIR data from less represented populations, such as those in low and middle-income economic strata, as well as harmonizing clinical trial data to enable comparisons between controlled clinical trials and outcomes observed in real world data (RWD). Co-author of 70 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles covering health informatics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, quantitative modelling, drug delivery, and cost-effectiveness. Graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Chemical Engineering Course and holds a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Education
Doctor of Medical Science
Harvard Univ, United States
Master of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
Yale University, United States