The Asian Scientist 100
Jackie Ying
Founding Executive Director
Institution
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Country
Singapore
Field
Leadership
Ying, whose research has led to many breakthroughs in the realms of drug delivery, cell and tissue engineering, and biosensing, among others, received the Mustafa Prize Top Scientific Award in 2015, an AAAS Fellowship in 2015, and a Singapore National Academy Science Fellowship in 2016.
(Photo: IBN)
AWARDS
- 2016 Singapore National Academy of Science Fellowship
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