Lisa Fong Poh Ng PhD

Lisa graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom in 1995. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Virology in coronaviruses from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002. After joining the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) in 2002 as a post-doctoral fellow, Lisa has made significant scientific contributions to the field where she worked on viral diseases such as hepatitis, SARS, and influenza. Her contributions involved academia to public health in developing a framework to deliver broad-range capability for disease preparedness.

She joined SIgN in 2007 and she is currently a Principal Investigator at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), and the research interest of her group focuses on the immune responses of arthritic arboviruses that are epidemic or highly endemic in the tropical region. Her research group became a member of ICRES (Integrated Chikungunya Research), a European Union Framework Program 7-funded project in 2009, and has since published several studies in top-tier scientific journals. These studies provided key findings to move the human immunology field forward in controlling the rising number of CHIKV infections.

For her previous work and contributions to SARS, she was voted “Most Inspiring Woman” at the Great Women of Our Time Awards for Science and Technology in 2005 and was conferred the Junior Chamber International (JCI) “Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World” Singapore 2013 Scientific and/or Technological Development Award. In recognition of her meritorious research and development efforts on Asia’s infectious diseases, she was conferred the highly prestigious ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) “International Young Scientist and Technologist Award” in 2008.

Lisa also holds adjunct Professorships with the Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the ‘National University of Singapore’ (NUS), and at the ‘Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. In recognition of her mentoring work for graduate students and scientists, she received the A*STAR “Most Inspiring Mentor Award” in March 2013.