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Kee Chin SIA

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Passionate about developing innovative biomaterial and technologies for regenerative and precision medicine

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Research Assistant

Duke-NUS Medical School
08.2024 - Current
  • Collaborated multidisciplinary teams supervised by Prof. Enrico PETRETTO from Centre for Computational Biology.
  • Leveraged human iPSC derived immune cell to study tissue fibrosis in lung organoids model.

Student Research Assistant

Institute of Biomedical Engineering
09.2021 - 09.2023
  • Advisor: Prof Chieh-Cheng HUANG
  • Dissertation: Therapeutic Application of 3D Stem Cell Spheroid-derived Decellularized Matrix for Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Developed primary stem cell (murine adipose, bone marrow) isolation methods and controlled cortical impact in murine model
  • Optimized decellularization protocol for 3D stem cell spheroid
  • Studied the potential candidates of decellularized matrix and secretomes that are tightly related to regenerative effect via proteomics
  • Attended an international conference (TERMIS-AP) with an oral presentation in Jeju, South Korea
  • Awarded the International Student Scholarship, 3 Minutes Thesis Competition
  • Published a Co-1st Author article from thesis dissertation.

Senior Research Assistant

Bone and Joint Research Center
08.2018 - 08.2021
  • Worked on 2 clinical studies and 2 research projects in Dr. Yuhan CHANG & Prof. Mei-Feng CHEN's team
  • Clinical study 1: Developed multiple antibiotic treatment strategies for periprosthetic joint fungal infection in BSL-2/3 Lab
  • Clinical study 2: Optimized isolation protocol of patient-derived adipose stem cells from intra-articular fat pad tissue for osteoarthritis (OA) treatment in GMP facilities
  • Project 1: Studied the role CXCL5 in periprosthetic joint infection
  • Project 2: Tested potential protein candidates for OA treatment in OA murine model (STR/ort)
  • Published an abstract for Experimental Biology conference at FASEB J 2020; 34(S1)

Research Assistant

Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science
01.2013 - 01.2018
  • Joined Prof. Wei-Ning LIN's team to determine underlying cell signaling pathways that involved in inflammation and disease development
  • Project 1: Investigated gut microbiota alteration and obesity development (2 published papers), developed high fat diet-induced obese murine model
  • Project 2: Conducted nano-encapsulated resveratrol with microemulsion to resolve inflammation
  • Awarded the Excellent poster reward at Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Science, Taiwan

Education

M.S. - Biomedical Engineering

National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan
01.2023

B.S - Life Science

Tunghai University
Taiwan
01.2013

Timeline

Senior Research Assistant

Duke-NUS Medical School
08.2024 - Current

Student Research Assistant

Institute of Biomedical Engineering
09.2021 - 09.2023

Senior Research Assistant

Bone and Joint Research Center
08.2018 - 08.2021

Research Assistant

Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science
01.2013 - 01.2018

M.S. - Biomedical Engineering

National Tsing Hua University

B.S - Life Science

Tunghai University

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