CAMP Team

Paving the way for positive
therapeutic outcomes

CAMP works with academic labs, clinics, and companies to develop methods that identify, monitor, and manipulate the critical quality attributes of cells that correlate with positive therapeutic outcomes.

Leadership

CAMP Leadership

SMART CAMP is led by Prof. Jongyoon Han (MIT), Prof. Michael Birnbaum (MIT) and Prof. Hanry Yu (NUS)

Jongyoon Han

Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering, MIT

HAN is a co-lead PI of SMART CAMP and co-captain of Flagship 1.

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Michael Birnbaum

Associate Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT

BIRNBAUM Michael is a co-lead PI of SMART CAMP. He is also the Immune Cell Cross-cut (Cross-cut B) captain.

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Hanry Yu

Professor of Physiology, YLL School of Medicine

YU is CAMP's Founding Co-Lead PI. He is also a founding PI of the Mechanobiology Institute @ NUS, and the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

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Francesca Lim

Senior Consultant, Hematology at Singapore General Hospital

LIM is a Senior Consultant / Hematologist at Singapore General Hospital, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the Advanced Cell Therapy and Research Institute Singapore (ACTRIS), and Deputy Head of the Singhealth Duke-NUS Cell Therapy Center.

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Bala Narayanan

Senior Program Manager, CAMP

Bala Narayanan is CAMP's Senior Program Manager. He brings years of experience in R&D program management and process engineering in industry and academic research settings.

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Yie Hou Lee

Scientific Director, CAMP

Lee is CAMP's Scientific Director. Dr. Lee brings experience from working with the various stakeholders in biomedical research and technology and translation to positive outcomes for patients.

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Principal Investigators

Camp Principal Investigators

CAMP includes MIT faculty PIs and Singapore-based PIs who lead the research and mentor postdoc and student researchers.

Ye AI

Associate Professor, SUTD

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George Barbastathis

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

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Antonio Bertoletti

Professor Clinician-Scientist; MD/PhD Duke-NUS

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Laurie A. Boyer

Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering MIT

Professor of Biology & Biological Engineering and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT

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Jerry Chan

Professor Clinician-Scientist; MD/PhD Duke-NUS and KKH

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Lih Feng Cheow

Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering, NUS

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Sing Yian Chew

Associate Professor Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU

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Patrick S. Doyle

Professor, Chemical Engineering, MIT

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Slaven Garaj

Assistant Professor Physics & Biomedical Engineering, NUS

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Hanwei Hou

Assistant Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU

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William Hwang

Clinician, SGH Medical Director, NCCS Head, Duke-NUS Blood Cancer Centre

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Eng Hin Lee

Clinician-Scientist; MD/PhD YLL School of Medicine, NUS

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May Win Naing

Director, Research Liaison Office, SIMTech

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Andrea Pavesi

Young Investigator, A*STAR IMCB

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Zhiyong Poon

Research Scientist, Singapore General Hospital (SGH)

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Rajeev Ram

Professor, Electrical Engineering, MIT

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Anthony J. Sinskey

Professor of Biology, MIT

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Stacy L. Springs

Executive Director MIT Biomanufacturing Program (BioMAN) and Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI)

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Krystyn J Van Vliet

Visiting Prof. @ MIT

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Rohan Williams

Head, Integrative Analysis Unit Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering (SCELSE), NUS

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Jackie Wolfrum

Co-Director, Biomanufacturing Initiatives; Director BioMAN: MIT

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Yang Zheng

Senior Research Fellow, NUS Tissue Engineering Programme (NUSTEP) - Life Sciences Institute, NUS

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Yong Zhi Yong Derrick

Scientist II Bio-Manufacturing Program, A*STAR SIMTech

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Xuanhe Zhao

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

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Jongyoon Han

Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering, MIT

HAN is a co-lead PI of SMART CAMP and co-captain of Flagship 1.

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Michael Birnbaum

Associate Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT

BIRNBAUM Michael is a co-lead PI of SMART CAMP. He is also the Immune Cell Cross-cut (Cross-cut B) captain.

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Hanry Yu

Professor of Physiology, YLL School of Medicine

YU is CAMP's Founding Co-Lead PI. He is also a founding PI of the Mechanobiology Institute @ NUS, and the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

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Staff

Staff @ SMART

Faye Cheung

Research Scientist

Identification of immunological related critical quality attributes (CQA) for manufacturing CAR-T cells.

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Cheryl Chan

Research Scientist

Adventitious viruses and associated safety CQAs.

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Chan Zhi Xian

Research Engineer

Automation of cell culturing/measurement systems through software-hardware integration & instrumentation of components.

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Averil Chen

Lab Manager

Averil is CAMP’s Lab Manager. With several years of experience and expertise in the biomedical field, she currently manages the operations, safety, events management and administration for CAMP lab.

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Daniel Ninio Roxby

Research Fellow @ NTU

Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry and Raman spectroscopy as label free tools for assessing quality and safety of iPS and spinal cord progenitor cells in cell therapy and manufacturing

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Suhas JAGANNATHAN

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

Computational modelling of dynamic biological processes

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Cameron JAMES

Post Doctoral Associate

Developing a manufacturing pipeline for the expansion of clinical grade iPSCs

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Kwek Zeming Kerwin

Research Scientist

Investigating label-free biophysical and biochemical CQAs for CAR-T immune therapy using precision single cell microfluidic technologies.

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Liu Yaoping

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

Development of micro/nano technologies for biomedical and clinical applications.

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Luah Yen Hoon

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

Immune cell therapy characterization.

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Meenubharathi Natarajan

Senior Research Engineer

Handling bacterial cultures and various extraction processes for sequencing and analysis.

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Nicholas Ng

Research Engineer

Development of predictive models to complement investigation of label-free biophysical CQAs for immunotherapy.

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Shruthi Pandi Chelvam

Research Engineer

Developing miniature fluidic instrumentation for sterile fluid extraction from cell culture vessels for optical measurements.

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Rashidah Binte Othman

Senior Research Engineer

MSC characterizatation from patients and donors.

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Sin Wei Xiang

Research Scientist

Immune cell therapy characterization, CQAs, and PATs.

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James Strutt

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

Next generation sequencing pipeline development for the identification of adventitious agents in cell therapy cultures.

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Tee Ching Ann

Postdoctoral Associate

Identification of critical quality attributes (CQA) and development of in process control with CQA outputs for MSC cell therapy manufacturing.

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Denise Teo

Research Engineer

Manufacturing of CAR-T cells.

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Wu Xiaolin

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

Development of new CRISPR/Cas based diagnostic methods and CRISPR/Cas-based adventitious agent detection.

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Yang Yanmeng

Postdoctoral Associate

Investigate extracellular vesicles related critical quality attributes (CQA) for MSC therapy manufacturing.

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Zhao Haoran

Postdoctoral Associate

MSCs and microcarriers fabrication for tissues regeneration.

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Bala Narayanan

Senior Program Manager, CAMP

Bala Narayanan is CAMP's Senior Program Manager. He brings years of experience in R&D program management and process engineering in industry and academic research settings.

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Yie Hou Lee

Scientific Director, CAMP

Lee is CAMP's Scientific Director. Dr. Lee brings experience from working with the various stakeholders in biomedical research and technology and translation to positive outcomes for patients.

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STAFF

Staff @ MIT

Hans Gaensbauer

Graduate student

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Yejin Park

Graduate Student

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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Caleb Perez

Graduate student

Biological Engineering

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Charley Swofford

Assistant Director, Biomanufacturing Initiatives: MIT

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Chonghe Wang

Graduate student

Mechanical Engineering

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Qingyang Henry Zhao

Graduate student

MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

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Students @ SMART

Lydia Chong

Graduate student @ NTU

Bioengineering

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Linwei He

Graduate student @ NTU

Mechanical Engineering

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Jerome Tan

Graduate Student @ NTU

IGP HealthTech

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