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Teo Wan Yee

Assistant Professor, MD Programme Department

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Dr. Wan-Yee Teo, a clinician-scientist, is Head and Principal Investigator of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Office at SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Center, Singapore. She is Vice President of the College of Clinician Scientists, Academy of Medicine Singapore. Her group conducts their laboratory research at the Laboratory of Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Office at Duke-NUS AMC. The research focus of her group is in the brain tumor microenvironment, particularly in pediatric brain tumors, and translating research findings in tumor biology, genomics and preclinical testing to bedside benefits for children with brain tumors. She completed her clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric NeuroOncology in the USA, and is board certified with the American Board of Pediatrics, and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health in the UK. Her research training was completed in the Cancer Genomics Program at Baylor College of Medicine, USA. 
Her research combines genomic methodologies and mouse models to study the complex regulation in the developmental biology of brain tumors. An area of emphasis is the preclinical development of therapeutics for brain tumors using patient-derived orthotopic brain tumor xenograft modelling.

Education

Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics, United States

Not Applicable

American Board of Paediatrics, United States

Doctor of Philosophy

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Postgraduate Diploma in Oncology

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Member, Royal Coll of Paediatrics & Child Health

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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