Meet the team

Dr Chia is a National Research Foundation fellow (Class of 2020) and L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science National Fellowship finalist. She received her Ph.D. in Stem Cell Biology from the University of Cambridge under the Wellcome Trust PhD scholarship and subsequently did her postdoctoral training at Columbia University under the A*STAR International Fellowship.

Upon returning to Singapore, Dr Chia continued her research in cell therapy at the Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR. After her stint in A*STAR, she joined Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), Translation Medicine Research Centre, as a senior scientist focusing on discovering and validating targets founded on human genetics in early drug discovery space.

Her research interests include immunotherapy, cell therapy and the use of stem cells for disease modelling and regenerative medicine. She has published in several journals, including Nature, Nature Cell Biology and Development.