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Name : Cleo Choong

Tel : +65 6513 8166

Fax : +65

E-mail : CLEOCHOONG@ntu.edu.sg

Assistant Professor,  Division of Materials Technology,  School of Materials Science & Engineering,  College of Engineering

 

Dr Cleo Choong obtained her MEng (1st class hons) in Materials Technology-Materials in Medicine from the Department of Materials, Queen Mary College, University of London. She went on to pursue her doctorate in Bone Tissue Engineering under the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) Overseas Scholarship scheme at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford. In 2003, Dr Choong was awarded the BP Younger Engineers Award and Gold Medal for Excellence in Engineering by a Younger Engineer by the House of Commons (UK) for her research in ‘Engineering Living Bone’. As a deployed A*STAR scholar, Dr Choong established the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology funded by the Singapore Stem Cell Consortium (SSCC) and undertook postdoctoral attachments at the University of Cambridge, Wenner-Gren Institute Stockolm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where she integrated knowledge from stem cell biology and epigenetics with advances in materials technology for regenerative medicine applications. Dr Choong went on to pursue an MBA whilst working with Bio*One Capital, the venture capital arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Prior to joining the department as a member of faculty, Dr Choong also spent time at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), where she managed their flagship programme on Personalised Medicine and explored opportunities for bench to boardroom research.[/author_info] [/author]