Prof Hanry Yu is a Professor of Physiology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS). He is also a Group Leader of Tissue Engineering at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR); Director of the Microscopy & Cytometry core facilities in NUHS; Principal Investigator and Graduate Chair at the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore. Since 2008, Prof. Yu has been a visiting professor of mechanical, and recently of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Prof Yu graduated with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Duke University, USA in 1994, and exposed to interdisciplinary environment at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) on a HFSP Long Term Fellowship before starting his academic career in Singapore in 1997. Prof. Yu has published 121 research articles in leading journals covering a few disciplines from cell biology, biomaterials and tissue engineering, to biomedical optics, lab chips and pharmaceutical science. He has been invited to deliver >120 plenary, keynote and invited talks, published >220 conference proceedings, 6 books and filed 42 patents with 5 licensed to companies. Prof. Yu was awarded the inaugural Young Researcher Award by the National University of Singapore in 2002, the Faculty Research Excellence Award by NUHS in 2009, and the A*STAR Scientist-Entrepreneur Award 2013. He takes pride in mentoring graduate students and national scholars who went on to develop outstanding careers in academia and industry worldwide.

   Biomaterials and tissue engineering, to biomedical optics, lab chips and pharmaceutical science.