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ANDREA PAVESI, PHD.
andrea.pavesi@ntu.edu.sg
Principal Investigator
Andrea was born in Italy and studied Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
He was awarded the Interpolytechnic Fellowship in 2009 and joined a joint Ph.D. program with MIT in Biomedical and Biomechanical Engineering.
In 2012, he moved to Singapore to work as a Post-doc at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) that is a major research enterprise established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) in Roger Kamm lab.
Andrea is a co-founding team member of AIM Biotech Pte ltd which provides organotypic assays with animal model-like complexities for research, drug discovery & diagnostics.
Andrea is also a graduate of the ESSEC Business School with a master in healthcare management.
In 2017, he joined the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in A*STAR as a Junior Investigator.
His research is now focused on microfluidic models to study adoptive cell-mediated cancer immunotherapies in tumor microenvironment models.
JYOTHSNA VASUDEVAN , PHD.
jyothsna@nus.edu.sg
Research Fellow
Jyothsna graduated with a Bachelor's in Biotechnology from SRM University in India, followed by a Master's in Biomedical Engineering in NUS. She was then accepted into a joint PhD programme in Biomedical Engineering from SUTD and NUS, where she investigated the influence of matrix stiffness on cancer cell migration decisions. She then did a short post-doc at NTU where she developed 3D printed biomaterial shuttles for treating spinal cord injuries. Before joining the lab, she also worked at Dynacyte Biosciences as an Applied Biologist where she trained and applied multis-scale object detection networks for detecting cell in microscopic images using a transfer learning approach.
She is currently working on using the organ-on-chip technology for investigating cancer-immune system interactions.
MICHELLE EIO, MSC.
michelle_eio@imcb.a-star.edu.sg
Senior Research Officer
Michelle graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences and was awarded an NUS scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Science.
After graduation, she joined A*STAR to pursue a research career, working at the Stem Cell Bank (IMB) to reprogram fibroblasts from rare genetic diseases into induced pluripotent stem cells. She transitioned to Simon Cool’s lab (IMCB), where she played a key role in the Allogenic Stem Cell Manufacturing Program (ASTEM), focusing on enhancing mesenchymal stem cell quality and yield for cell therapy. She later completed a short stint in Dr. Crystal’s lab (IMCB), studying novel genes involved in motor neuron diseases.
Michelle joined Andrea’s lab in 2024, where she is currently working with organ-on-a-chip technology to study cancer immune models. In addition to her research, she also manages the lab’s administrative operations at IMCB.
BYUN SUYEON, BSC.
suyeon.byun@ntu.edu.sg
Research Assistant
Suyeon graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2024 with a degree in Bioengineering in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biotechnology (CCEB). She researched on developing antibacterial mimetic cell-derived nanovesicles from Mesenchymal stem cells.
She is also familiar with isolating, purifying, and characterizing mimetic vesicles and exosomes from pathogenic bacteria and various human and animal cells.
Her current project primarily focuses on using the organ-on-chip technology for investigating cancer-immune system interactions. In addition to her research, she also manages the lab’s administrative operations at NTU LKCMedicine.
NETRA KUMARESAN, BSC.
netrakumaresan@aimbiotech.com
MSc Student
Netra graduated with a Bachelor's in Biomedical Science from La Trobe University. She currently works as a Senior Research Officer at AIM Biotech, where she supports the development of organ-on-chip models for assay development, such as blood-brain barrier assays, and contributes to contract research services.
Alongside her work, she is pursuing Master’s in Applied Biomedicine with a specialization in Vaccinology and Immunology at NUS Medicine.
As part of this program, she has the opportunity to undertake a capstone project in the lab, where she is investigating aneuploidy in colon cancer and its impact on immune surveillance.
FRANCESCO NOTO, MSC.
francesco_noto.tp@imcb.a-star.edu.sg
PhD Student
Francesco graduated at La Sapienza University of Rome in Pharmaceutical
Chemistry in 2022. He started his PhD program at the National Institute of Health in
Rome, where his project focuses on the development of new therapeutical approaches to improve immunotherapies against cancer by a multidisciplinary approach including in vivo experimentation and organ-on-a-chip technology.
Francesco was awarded with the ARAP program scholarship to purse is final year of PhD in
Andrea’s lab focusing his research on improving organ-on-a-chip approaches into the
cancer immune models.
AUSTIN SEAH, DIP.
aswk@u.nus.edu
Intern
Austin is currently studying at the National University of Singapore, BSc in Life Sciences.
Prior to his attachment here, he was working on stem cell-derived organoid models for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver and Parkinson’s Disease at Genome Institute of Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School respectively. This is his first and longest attachment straight out of the military.
He is currently aiding in the development and validation of 3D microfluidic models.
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