SMART - Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology

Biosystems and Micromechanics

BioSystems and Micromechanics (BioSyM) Inter-Disciplinary Research Group

Jerry K Y CHAN
Associate Professor, Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, NUS, Singapore
Consultant, Reproductive Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore

Positions

  • 2010–present Consultant, Reproductive Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital
  • 2010–present Associate Professor, Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, NUS
  • 2010–present Adjunct Assistant Professor, OBGYN, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • 2010–present Honorary Associate Professor, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
  • 2009–present NMRC Clinician Scientist
  • 2010–present Member – KKH Hospital Research Committee
  • 2011–present Co–Chair – KKH Research Committee
  • 2012–present Chair – Research Committee, Clinical Translational Research Institute, Duke / KKH
  • 2010–present Mentor, Singhealth OBGYN Residency Clinician–Scientist Track
  • 2005–present PI – Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, YLL SoM, NUS
  • 2010–present SMART Faculty Fellow – Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Fellow

Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2011 22nd Benjamin Henry Sheares Memorial Lecture, Singapore Intl Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • 2009 NMRC Clinician Scientist Award
  • 2009 Best Oral Presentation (Basic Sciences) - National Healthcare Group Annual Scientific Meeting
  • 2006–2009 Best Oral Presentation- Pitch for Funds, Clinician Scientist Unit
  • 2005, 2007, 2008 Vandenburg-Storz Prize for Best Young Investigator - International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society, 2005 (Helsingor, Denmark), 2007 (Aruba, Aruba), 2008 (Athens, Greece)

Selected Publications:

  • Muzlifah Haniffa, Amanda Shin, Venetia Bigley, Pavinder Singh Wasan, Naomi McGovern, Xiao-Nong Wang, Pearline Teo, Frano Gonzalez, Benoit Malleret, Peter See, Anis Larbi, Pearlie Tan, Michael Poidinger, Sarah Pagan, Sharon Cookson, Katherine Sturgess, Rachel Dickinson, John Connolly, Laurent Renia, John Tam, Colin Song, Jerry K Y Chan, Adam Gehring, Antonio Bertoletti, Matthew Collin and Florent Ginhoux. Human tissues contain CD141high cross-presenting dendritic cells homologous to the mouse CD103/CD8+ dendritic cell lineage. Immunity 2012 – in press.
  • Citra N Mattar, Simon N Waddington, Arijit Biswas, Andrew M Davidoff, Mahesh Choolani, Jerry KY Chan, Amit Nathwani. The case for intrauterine gene therapy. Best Practice and Research Obstetrics and Gynaecology. (2012) in press.
  • Citra N Mattar, Mahesh Choolani, Jerry K Y Chan. The case for intrauterine stem cell therapy. Best Practice and Research Obstetrics and Gynaecology. (2012) In Press.
  • Guillaume Hoeffel, Yilin Wang, Melanie Greter, Peter See, Pearline Teo, Benoit Malleret, Marylene Le boeuf, Donovan Low, Guillaume Oller, Marcos Grisotto, Laurent Renia, E. Richard Stanley, Jerry K Y Chan, Lai Guan Ng, Igor M. Samokhvalov, Miriam Merad and Florent Ginhoux. Langerhans cells arise from both yolk sac primitive macrophages and fetal liver monocytes during embryonic development. JEM 2012 – (in press)
  • Citra N Mattar, Simon N Waddington, Arijit Biswas, Nuryanti Johana, Xiang Wen Ng, Angus S Fisk, Nicholas M Fisk, Lay geok Tan, Ahahd A Rahim, Suzanne M K Buckley, Mui Hong Tan, Jia Lu, Mahesh Choolani, Jerry K Y Chan. Systemic delivery of scAAV9 in fetal macaques facilitates neuronal transduction of the central and peripheral nervous system. Gene Therapy –26 January 2012; doi: 10.1038/gt.2011.216
  • Jennifer P Newman, Toh Xin Yi, Jerry K Y Chan, Berwini Endaya, Paula Lam. Migration of human fetal bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells: Involvement of GPCR and MMPs. Journal of Stem Cell Research and Therapy 2011, S2.
  • Zhi-Yong Zhang, Swee-Hin Teoh, James HP Hui, Nicholas M Fisk, Mahesh Choolani, Jerry K Y Chan. The
    potential of human fetal mesenchymal stem cells for off-the-shelf bone tissue engineering application. Biomaterials.
    2012 Mar;33(9):2656-72. Epub 2012 Jan 2.