Single Molecule & Single Cell Analysis Keynote Speakers

Ulf Landegren
Principal Investigator, University of Uppsala

Ulf Landegren received his MD and PhD in Uppsala, Sweden, before working with Lee Hood at Caltech for five years. Back in Uppsala he now is professor of molecular medicine where his research is focused on developing and applying advanced molecular tools for analyzing macromolecules and their functions in body fluids and in situ. Examples of techniques from his lab include the oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA) and padlock probes for measuring and distinguishing specific DNA and RNA sequences, and proximity ligation for highly sensitive detection of proteins or for measurement of interacting molecules.
Professor Landegren is a member of EMBO, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Advisory Committee for European Academies, and HUGO, vice-chair of Science for Life Laboratory Uppsala, Assistant department head, Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Member of SAB at Centers for Translational Mol Med, and Cardiovascular Research, both in the Netherlands, Member of SAB Max Planck Inst f Mol Genetics Berlin, Member/chair of SAB German Cancer Research Center Div of Structural and Functional Genomics, Heidelberg, Visiting senior scientist at RIKEN Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Fellow of School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, Co-chair of a workpackage for technologies and reagents for biobank analysis in a European infrastructure for biobanking – BBMRI, Member of SAB of Alacris Theranostics, Berlin, Germany, Chair of SAB, HaloGenomics, Uppsala. He has authored 165 peer-reviewed publications, and is inventor of 32 patents or applications, and his lab has spun out five biotech companies.

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).

Menno Prins
Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology & Helia BioMonitoring