Wee Ang PhD

Prof Wee Han Ang graduated from Imperial College, UK in 1995 with a BSc(Hons) First Class under the Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship to serve in the Navy. He retired from service in 2003 and returned to academia to pursue his PhD studies at EPFL, Switzerland under the supervision of Paul Dyson. He then moved to MIT, US as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Stephen Lippard, where he studied the effects of Pt-DNA adducts on RNA transcription.

Ang joined the National University of Singapore in 2009 as an assistant professor to embark on his independent academic career. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2015. Wee Han has been a member of the AsBIC Steering Committee since 2016 and chaired the 9th AsBIC conference in Singapore. He has authored and co-authored over 100 research articles, 5 reviews, and book chapters.