Chan Kok Yen Jerry MB BCh BaO (Hons), MA, MRCOG, FRCOG, PhD, FAMS

Dr Chan read Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with Honours and first in his class in 1997. He began his postgraduate residency in England, mainly in Manchester and London. He completed the rest of his OBGYN training in Singapore in 2009, and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in 2011, and is a practising accredited specialist in in Assisted Reproductive Technique in KK Women's and Children Hospital. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London. Dr Chan completed a PhD in intrauterine stem cell therapies at Imperial College London. Thereafter, he returned to Singapore and started the Experimental Fetal Therapy laboratory, with a primary focus in developing novel fetal molecular therapies in the form of gene transfer and stem cell transplantation. Since then, he has been continuously funded by major grant funding bodies for his research, and has supervised over 12 PhD students successfully. He has published over 170 papers, including prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature, Cell, Science, Immunity, PNAS, Blood, Stem Cells among others.