Keynote speaker
Prof. LIM Chwee Teck
Provost's Chair Professor Deputy Head (Administration & External Relations), Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS Profile Prof Lim is a Provost’s Chair Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a Principal Investigator of the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS. His research interests include mechanobiology of human diseases and the development of biomedical microdevices for disease detection and diagnosis. Prof Lim has authored more than 245 peer-reviewed journal papers and 26 book chapters and delivered more than 240 invited talks. He is currently on the editorial boards of 12 international journals. He co-founded four startups and a technology incubator. Prof Lim and his team has won more than 40 research awards and honors including the University’s Outstanding Researcher Award and Outstanding Innovator Award in 2014, Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold), Asian Entrepreneurship Award (First Prize) in 2012, President's Technology Award the TechVenture Rising Star Innovator Award in 2011 and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award in 2010. His research was cited by the MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2006 that will "have a significant impact on business, medicine or culture" Abstract When Engineering Meets Biology & Medicine - Technological Advances or New Biological Insights? The world's human population is now at its highest ever and with it comes problems that are getting more and more complex and less and less tractable. We are now constantly faced with challenges relating to a growing aging population, urban sustainability, energy, water and healthcare. Here, I will just highlight one area where we hope, in some small way, can help to tackle some of these challenges. I will share from my own experience, how an interdisciplinary approach that combines engineering, biology and medicine can not only lead to new technological advances that can help to detect, diagnose and even treat some of the world's deadliest diseases, but can also lead to new pathophysiological insights and better understanding of the mechanisms of such diseases. |