Oliver Dreesen received his PhD from the Rockefeller University in New York City, where he studied the structure and function of telomeres and telomerase in Trypanosoma brucei. In 2009, he joined the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore to study telomeres during cellular reprogramming and in rare genetic human diseases. Dreesen was promoted to Project Leader in 2013, and in 2016, to Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory for Cell Aging at the Skin Research Institute of Singapore. He is currently serving as President of the Skin Research Society (Singapore).
