Ghee Chuan Lai
Healthcare Investment
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
Associate
2023 - Current
- Healthcare investment and portfolio management
Head, MedTech/Diagnostics/Digital Health, Innovation & Enterprise
2021 - 2023
- Strategic partnerships, project management and tech commercialization
Assistant Head, MedTech/Diagnostics/Digital Health, Innovation & Enterprise
2021 - 2021
Assistant Head, Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership office (BMSIPO)/ Industry Development Group
2020 - 2021
- Fostering public-private partnerships between medtech and healthtech companies, local academic and clinical community (A*STAR, Institutes of Higher Learning and Public Hospitals)
Research Fellow, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)
2017 - 2019
- Initiated and executed project that investigates polymicrobial interactions through pairwise interaction screens and longitudinal total RNA metagenomics sequencing - Led the collaboration with clinicians, postdocs and principal investigators from Singapore, Israel and UK in project on fetal immunity - Authored microbiome component of the cancer immunogram grant worth > $10m. - Supervised 3 students / technicians in laboratory research
PhD Candidate
2010 - 2016
- Spearheaded collaboration between 2 principal investigators across departments for thesis - Discovered novel targets important for bacterial survival under antibiotic stress - Identified novel genetic factors important for bacterial cell envelope homeostasis - Established a microfluidics-assisted cell screening platform for intracellular delivery (US Patent No. 62/533,801)
Research Officer
2009 - 2010
- Conducted biophysical modelling on intracellular protein transport in neuronal cells
Research Assistant
2008 - 2009
- Investigated the structural and dynamic properties of amyloid beta mutants in Alzheimer’s disease research
Combat Medic
2004 - 2006
6th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment
Education
Ph.D.
2010 - 2016
B. Sc. (Honors)
2006 - 2009