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Top 100 Asian Scientist Chwee Teck LIM of NUS Visited WashU

Next Age Institute extended a warm welcome to Professor Chwee Teck LIM of National University of Singapore who visited the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) on March 23-24, 2016.

During the visit, Professor Lim had opportunities to exchange research ideas with select SEAS faculty members and to meet WUSTL’s leadership including James Wertsch, Vice Chancellor for International Relations, Dedric Carter, Vice Chancellor for Operations and Technology Transfer, and Aaron Bobick, Dean and James M. McKelvey Professor of SEAS.

Professor Lim delivered a presentation titled Microfluidic Technologies for Disease Diagnosis, Personalized Medicine to Wearable Device Applications as part of the Speakers Series at Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

Professor Lim is a Provost’s Chair Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore. He was recently named as one of the Top 100 Asian Scientists in 2016.