Chwee Teck Lim's Biography

Chwee Teck Lim, NUS Society Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

Professor Lim is NUS Society Chair Professor, Acting Director, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include the mechanobiology of human diseases and the development of microfluidic technologies for disease detection, diagnosis and therapy. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers (including 43 invited/review articles) and delivered more than 290 invited talks. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering as well as an elected member of the World Council of Biomechanics. He currently sits on the editorial boards of 13 international journals. Prof Lim co-founded four startups which are commercializing technologies developed in his lab. He and his team have garnered more than 50 research awards and honors including the Asian Scientist 100 (2016), University’s Outstanding Researcher and Outstanding Innovator Awards (2014), the Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold) and the Asian Entrepreneurship Award (First Prize) (2012), President's Technology Award (2011) and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award (2010).