Lim Chwee Teck

Co-Principal Investigator
NUSS Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech)
Founding Director, Singapore Health Technologies Consortium
Professor Lim Chwee Teck is a researcher, innovator and serial entrepreneur. He is the inaugural NUS Society Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He has coauthored over 430 peer‐reviewed publications, delivered over 400 plenary/keynote/invited talks and has over 60 filed/granted patents. He also co‐founded six startups which are commercializing technologies developed in his lab. Prof Lim is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, Academy of Engineering, Singapore and the Singapore National Academy of Science. He and his team have garnered over 100 research awards and honours including Highly Cited Researcher 2019, IP Champion for the WIPO‐IPOS IP Awards in 2019, ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award and Asian Scientists 100 in 2016, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold) in 2012, President’s Technology Award in 2011 and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award in 2010 and 2016 among others. His Research Interests are in Health and biomedical technologies, Wearable sensors, Microfluidics.