Researcher

Jessica Sze Jia Kng

Research Officer

Institute of Bioengineering and Bioimaging (IBB)

Jessica Sze Jia Kng graduated from the National University of Singapore where she majored in Life sciences and minored in Forensic Science. Upon graduation, she worked with Yi Yan Yang for a year on combination cancer drug therapy and contributed to several COVID-19 projects. She then transferred to Kaicheng Liang’s lab as the first staff where she managed the creation of the new lab’s infrastructure and capabilities and led the biological efforts that focused on various imaging modalities. These included a non-destructive imaging assay of viability in 2D and 3D cell culture, cell and tissue imaging on a custom fluorescence microscope for clinical applications, and creating preclinical cancer models.

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