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Chan Kok Yen, Jerry

Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Obstetrics & Gynaecology Academic Clinical Programme

Academic Vice Chair (Research), SingHealth Duke-NUS Obstetrics & Gynaecology Academic Clinical Programme

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Dr. Chan read Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with Honours and First in his class in 1997. He began his postgraduate residency in Manchester and London, England. He completed the rest of his OBGYN training in Singapore in 2009, and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in 2011, and is a practising accredited specialist in in Assisted Reproductive Technique in KKH. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London.

Dr. Chan completed a PhD in intrauterine stem cell therapies at Imperial College London (2006). Thereafter, he returned to Singapore and started the Experimental Fetal Therapy laboratory, with a primary focus in developing novel fetal molecular therapies in the form of gene transfer and stem cell transplantation. Since then, he has been continuously funded by major grant funding bodies for his research totaling S$27.3 million as PI and S$52.5 million as Co-I/collaborator, and has supervised over 15 PhD students successfully. He has published over 250 papers, including prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, Science, Immunity, PNAS, Blood, Stem Cells among others. He was also recognised as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2020 and is currently the youngest full Professor in OBGYN in Singapore.

Education

Member, Royal Coll of Obstet & Gynae

Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, United Kingdom

Master of Arts

Trinity College, Dublin, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Med, Bachelor of Surg, Bachelor of Obstet

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

NUS Appointment(s)

Principal Investigator

Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, YLL SoM, NUS, Currently Active

Member

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Currently Active

Associate Professor (Joint)

OBGYN, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Currently Active

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