Researcher
Lai Guan Ng obtained his PhD degree from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. He joined A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in 2004 as a Postdoctoral Researcher before leaving for the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, US, where he carried out research in Wolfgang Weninger’s laboratory. Returning to Singapore in 2009, he established his own laboratory at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR, and holds adjunct appointments at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. His research interests include developing intravital imaging approaches for direct visualization of immune cell behavior in the skin, bone marrow, lung, brain and muscle.
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