Lay Lab News
03/2025: Jiah Shin is awarded A*STAR's Career Development Fund (CDF), an early career research grant!
03/2025: Welcome Aisha Saleem as ARAP PhD student
03/2025: Kenneth presented his joint lab work on skin organoids as invited speaker and panellist at Organoid Day 2025, a 1-day symposium organized by STEMCELL Technologies
02/2025: Lay Lab participated in A*SRL Away Day, where staff and students share scientific updates, foster collaborations and strengthen working relationships
02/2025: Kenneth attended the EMBO Lab Leadership Course, along with stellar scientists selected from across Singapore. A premium avenue to develop your leadership skills and lead your lab to advance the frontiers of science
From left: Kenneth, Giulia Adriani (SIgN, A*STAR), Liang Wei Wang (SIgN, A*STAR), Lynn Yap (LKCMedicine, NTU), Boxiang Liu (NUS Pharmacy), Céline Carret (EMBO course instructor), Bin Wu (NTU SBS), Brandon Morinaka (NUS Pharmacy), Kok Hao Chen (GIS, A*STAR), Hong Yong Peh (LSI Immunology, NUS) and Dennis Kappei (NUS Biochemistry)
01/2025: Welcome Elise Lauw as NTU FYP student
12/2024: Jiah Shin wins IFMBE Young Investigator Award 1st Prize at the 18th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering!
10/2024: Welcome Joel Celio Francisco ("Franco") as Postdoctoral Research Fellow
09/2024: Welcome Ervin Chan as Research Officer
08/2024: Kenneth shared his career experiences at Vista II with recipients of the A*STAR NSS scholarship who are going to embark on their PhD training next year. If you are thinking of a career in research, do consider applying:
05/2024: Kenneth is interviewed for A*STAR Research's feature of A*STAR NRF awardees:
https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/blazing-new-trails/
05/2024: Jia Huey wins Lee Foundation Prize for Best FYP Project!
04/2024: Kenneth represented A*SRL at the inaugural EMBO Global Investigator Meeting held in NTU, Singapore
03/2024: Welcome Jiah Shin Chin as Postdoctoral Research Fellow
03/2024: Lay Lab was involved in hosting the 5th Singapore International Skin Conference
01/2024: Kenneth is featured in an issue of A*STAR Research focused on skin research: https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/itching-for-a-cure/
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12/2023: Kenneth is awarded the National Research Foundation Fellowship (NRF-F)!
09/2023: Welcome Radiance Lim as Lab Manager and Senior Research Officer
07/2023: Welcome Jia Huey Ho as Lay Lab's very first student and polytechnic FYP student funded by A*STAR Graduate Academy (A*GA)
06/2023: Kenneth co-chaired the Gordon Research Seminar on Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization, and presented his work on human genetic skin diseases at the accompanying Gordon Research Conference, Barcelona, Spain
05/2023: Kenneth represented Skin Research Society Singapore as speaker at Asia Oceania Symposium of the inaugural International Societies for Investigative Dermatology (ISID), Tokyo, Japan
04/2023: Lay Lab is set up!