Researcher

Lit-Hsin Loo is a Senior Principal Investigator at the A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII). His research focuses on investigating the spatial organisation and phenotypic plasticity of tissues and predicting their responses to therapeutic or toxic agents. His research team develops AI-enabled image analysis methods to make cellular phenotypes and tissue histology quantifiable and amenable to automated analyses. By partnering with clinical, regulatory and industrial collaborators, the team is translating these spatial profiles of cells and tissues into novel diagnostic, therapeutic or safety-assessment strategies. Loo is also a co-founder of ImmunoQs, a techbio start-up that provides spatial biomarker discovery solutions based on the computational platform and tools developed by his team. Loo received the Lush Prize Science Award from Ethical Consumer, UK, in 2016, as well as the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research in 2010 and the Alfred Gilman Award in 2009 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University and in the Department of Pharmacology at UTSW.