Luke P. Lee

Biomedical Institute for Global Healthcare Research& Technology (BIGHEART), NUS

Prof. Lee received both his BA in Biophysics and PhD in Applied Physics (major) and Bioengineering (minor) from UC Berkeley. He joined the faculty at the UC Berkeley in 1999 after more than a decade of industry experience, and then became the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering in 2005. He also served as the Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich) from 2006 to 2007. He became Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor in 2010 andreappointed again 2015.  Recently, he is appointed as Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor and AssociatePresident (International Research and Innovation) at NUS in 2016.  He is also establishing Biomedical Institute for Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART) in Singapore.His work at the interface of biological, physical, and engineering sciences for medicine has been recognized by many honors that include the HoAmPrize, the IEEE William J. Morlock Award,NSF Career Award, and Fulbright Scholar Award.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Medical and BiologicalEngineering (AIMBE). His current research interests are nanoscale biophotonics in living cells, molecular diagnostics of infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, bioinspired neuralinterfaces and organs on a chip, and in vitro molecular neuropathogenesis, with a focus both on studying fundamental quantum biological electrontransfer and on solving ill-defined problems of healthcare.