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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.
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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CAMP includes MIT faculty PIs and Singapore-based PIs who lead the research and mentor postdoc and student researchers.
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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Stacy L. Springs
Executive Director MIT Biomanufacturing Program (BioMAN) and Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI)
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Rohan Williams
Head, Integrative Analysis Unit Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering (SCELSE), NUS
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Yang Zheng
Senior Research Fellow, NUS Tissue Engineering Programme (NUSTEP) - Life Sciences Institute, NUS
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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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Faye Cheung
Research Scientist
Identification of immunological related critical quality attributes (CQA) for manufacturing CAR-T cells.
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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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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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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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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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