Roger Foo
MD MBBS FRCP FACC FAHA FAMS Principal Investigator
Roger is a Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital Singapore (NUH) and also a senior investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Institute (NUS) and the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). His lab has worked to set up the first...
meet us
These are the great people at Foo Lab
Albert DASHI
MSc, BSc (Hons)
PhD Student
Albert is a graduate from Switzerland and also has a Masters degree in Biomedical Science obtained at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He has...
Arnaud PERRIN
Arno is a graduate from the Laval University (Canada) with a Masters degree in Cell and Molecular Biology, and completed his second Masters degree...
Benson LIM
PhD Post-Doc Fellow
Benson completed his BSc, BSc (Hons) and PhD back-to-back at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He originally trained as a molecular...
Cheryl Chan
BSc (Hons)
PhD Student
Cheryl is a Ph.D alumni of the Foo-lab and the NGS school in NUS. Her specialisation is in murine cardiovascular physiology and genetics
Ching Kit
Assistant Professor
Ching Kit is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Senior...
Chukwuemeka George Onyeka Anene
PhD
Post-Doc Fellow
George is a clinician by training and has worked at the frontline of Nigerian hospitals, treating patients with resources that are vastly more...
Do Dang Vinh
PhD Post-Doc Fellow
Vinh is an A*STaR Fellowship award holder. He qualifies with a PhD from NUS from the lab of Fu Xin-Yuan where he worked with Barbara B. Knowles...
Edita Aliwarga
BSc Research Assistant
I am a graduate of the Atma Jaya Catholic University in Indonesia with a Bachelor degree in Biotechnology. I started working in the Foo-lab in...
Efthymios Motakis
PhD
Post-Doc Fellow
Makis received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Bristol, UK in 2008. Since then he has been mainly working on statistical modelling of...
Ives Lim
Biostatistician (Research Fellow)
Ives majored in Molecular Cell Biology as an undergraduate in National University of Singapore, completing his final year project using...
Jenny
PhD
Post-Doc Fellow
A new PhD SINGA scholar starting in early 2019. Jenny completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and worked as a research...
Lavenniah ANNADORAY
PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Rongrong is interested in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of heart, in particular the glycogen component of the cardiac ECM. Her work aims to...
Lim Choon Kiat
PhD/Postdoc
Choon Kiat started working in our lab in Dec 2014 as an A*STAR NGS scholar. His PhD projects aim to understand the changes in epigenetic profiling...
Louis
I am a graduate of the University of Bradford with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences. I am the newest member of the Foo lab, with a role in...
Matias Autio
PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Matias’ work in the lab involves developing various stem cell models using CRISPR/Cas9, and other genome engineering tools, as well as studying...
Matt Ackers-Johnson
PhD
Post-Doc Fellow
Matt is our lab’s microRNA expert. He completed his PhD in Cambridge in Dr Sanjay Sinha’s lab on projects involving microRNA and now...
Michelle
Michelle completed her PhD in National University of Singapore, where she studied transcription factor and gene regulation using the organism...
Mick Lee
BSc
PhD Student
Mick is a NUS PhD Scholar under the Medicine Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Research Scholarship. Previously working on the Inflammasome signaling...
Peter Li
MSc
CBS Manager
Peter Li is the lab supervisor of operations at NUS while also managing the Comparative Biomedical Services (CBS) within NUS. With almost 10 years...
Rina
Research Assistant
Rina is a graduate from NUS with a Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences). She joined the Foo Lab in Feb 2019 as a research assistant.
Swati Tomar
PhD Post-Doc Fellow
I am a molecular geneticist with expertise in next generation sequencing for inherited rare disorders and cancers. At Foo Lab, I will be involved...
Tuan
Dip Med
Surgeon
Tuan is our group’s surgeon. Since starting in our lab in 2013, he has undertaken over 300 operations for our mouse models of heart failure...
Wang Ruifeng
Management Assistant Officer
Ruifeng is our lab administrator and also PA to Roger. She is in charge of lab procurement, clinic appointments and all group finance matters. She...
Wilson Tan
BSc (Hons)
Bioinformatics Speciallist
Wilson is one of our lab’s computer anoraks. His work on computation, bioinformatics and applied statistics underpins nearly all of our...
Yipeng
BSc Research Assistant
Yipeng is a graduated from Monash University (Victoria, Australia) in 2014 with a degree in biomedical science.
Zenia Tiang
BSc
Lab Manager
Zenia is our sequencing library “constructor extraordinaire”. She is the person who links our lab to external collaborators by making...
Zhao Rong Rong
PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Rongrong is interested in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of heart, in particular the glycogen component of the cardiac ECM. Her work aims to...
Zhe
PhD PostDoc
My previous research experience and expertise was built on studies on the effect of DNA modifications on DNA stability, structure and packaging...
Zhu Yike
PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Rongrong is interested in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of heart, in particular the glycogen component of the cardiac ECM. Her work aims to...
Past Members
Dr Ana Vujic (PhD student)
Presently: post-doc fellow at Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Dr Darshan Brahmbhatt (MPhil student)
Presently Cardiology Specialist Registrar, Cambridge
Dr Emma Robinson (PhD student)
Presently: completing PhD studies at Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Dr Kelvin See (Senior Research Fellow)
Presently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Lina Cordeddu (post-doc fellow)
Presently: post-doc fellow at Karolinska Institutet
Dr Lee Siggens (PhD student)
Presently: post-doc fellow at Karolinska Institutet
Dr Mehregan Movassagh (post-doc fellow)
Presently at Prescient Life Sciences
Suzanne Tan (Research Assistant)
BSc
Presently in Spain
Chua Wee Woon (Laboratory Technologist)
BSc
Presently: Medical Technologist in Angsana Molecular and Diagnostics Laboratory.
Everett (Research Assistant)
BSc (hons.)
Presently: PhD Student in GIS
Interns (past & present)
Brett Joseph COLLINGE (University of British Columbia)
SIPGA scholar
Priscilla Lim Xin Yi (NUS, Singapore)
Final Year Honours student
Seow Wei Qiang (NUS, Singapore)
Presently, A*STaR PhD scholar at University of Cambridge
Lam Shing Pheng (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)
Phillina Yihui Phua (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)
Presently, NUS School of Science
Chunjie Wong (Hwa Chong Institution)
Presently NTU Medical School
Yee Shiun Chan (NUS High School)
Benjamin Lee (NTU Medical School)
Daobo Wang (NUS Medical School)
Sia Tze Yang (Raffles Institution)
Presently NUS Medical School
Tan Ting Fang (Raffles Institution)
Presently NUS Medical School
Raphael Soh (Raffles Institution)
Presently NUS Medical School
“Jay” Kritchai Vutipongsatorn (Temasek JC)
Presently, Imperial College London Medical School
Li Ting Lee (Temasek Polytechnic)
Presently, NTU School of Science
Irwin Lee (Republic Polytechnic)
Melvin Yong (Republic Polytechnic)
Ellen Tejo (Republic Polytechnic)
Jade Tangqi Ng (Murdoch University)
Valencia Phua (NTU School of Science)
Nicole Choi Yuk Yin (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)
Presently, NUS Medical School