A/P Lina Lim graduated with an undergraduate degree in Pharmacology at King’s College London. She received her Ph.D in Immuno-pharmacology in 2000 under the guidance of Professor Roderick Flower and Dr Mauro Perretti at the William Harvey Research Institute in London. Her Ph.D was on evaluating the functions of glucocorticoids and lipocortin-1 (still her most favorite protein, now named Annexin-A1) in inflammation. She left the UK and went to the USA for her Post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. She returned to Singapore in 2003 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology, NUS. Dr Lim is now an Associate Professor (since 2010) and leads the Inflammation & Cancer Laboratory situated up the hill in the Immunology Program, Life Sciences Institute.
The main focus of the LL lab research program is on annexins and their functions in signaling pathways and host factors involved in inflammation, infection and cancer.
A/P Lina is also a fellow at Tembusu College, Utown since 2011 where she teaches multidisciplinary seminar modules including CSI forensics and Biomedicine and Singapore Society. For more information about Tembusu College, click here.
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Lina H.K. Lim
(Principal Investigator)
Members of the LL lab
Cui Jian Zhou, PhD
(Senior Research Fellow)
Jianzhou obtained his PhD from Ocean University of China. He then joined the Division of Reproductive Biology as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow at National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB) and Postdoc Associate in University of Maryland, College Park before he worked in Department of Physiology at the National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow in Dr Shen Han Ming's lab. He joined the Inflammation and Cancer Lab and his project is focused on understanding stress hormones on tumor and immune cells in the cancer microenvironment and the role of autophagy.
Karishma Sachaphibulkij, PhD (Research Fellow)
Karishma obtained her Bachelors degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Following that she joined A*STAR as a Lab Officer in the Gastric Cancer Lab. She then joined the ROS and Apoptosis Lab at the National University of Singapore as a Research Assistant where she worked on the mechanism involved in treating cisplatin-resistant lung cancers. Karishma furthered her education and obtained her PhD from Griffith University in Australia in 2016. She then joined the Immunology Programme as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore and is currently a member of the Inflammation and Cancer Lab since 2016. Karishma works on the use of electrochemotherapy in cancer, and the role of stress hormones in breast cancer growth and metastasis
Michelle Yee, PhD
(Research Fellow)
Michelle received her Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Biomedical Science, and her PhD in Cancer Biology from the Cancer Science Institute at the National University of Singapore. Her PhD research focused on elucidating the mechanisms underlying redox-driven carcinogenesis. Michelle is currently a teaching fellow at Tembusu College and has recently joined the Inflammation and Cancer lab under the Immunology Program at the Life Science Institute, where she investigates the role of stress, and its effects on signalling pathways in breast cancer development and progression.
Teo Wen Shiun, BSc
(Research Assistant)
Wen Shiun graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours, in Biomedical Sciences with specialisation in Medical Cell Biology from University of Bradford. He served A*STAR Biological Resource Centre dealing with animal models and scientific services projects for 3 years. He then joined Cancer Science Institute Singapore, serving a cross-functional role of laboratory manager and researcher, with his expertise focused into cancer research in mouse model for another 3 years. In 2020, he joined the Inflammation and Cancer Lab in NUS, the department of Physiology under A/P Lina Lim to work on further developing mouse models for studies on electrochemotherapy, stress, the immune system and cancer.
Lim Hong Meng
(Lab Technologist)
Hong Meng worked in Singapore Zoological Gardens as a zookeeper in 2007 - 2010. He then worked at Comparative Medicine, NUS, as an Animal Laboratory Technologist from 2010 - 2014. He next worked as a Veterinarian Technician for the next 3 years. He came back to NUS in April 2017 and is now working in the Inflammation and Cancer Lab under A/P Lina Lim as a Laboratory Technologist.
Sonja Courtney Chua
(PhD student - Hebrew-NUS)
Sonja graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy) with Honors from National University of Singapore (NUS). After doing her pre-registration training at Singapore General Hospital, she is now a registered pharmacist and joined the lab in 2017. As a joint-PhD student with NUS and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she is working on using yeast to screen for new drugs against influenza.
Tan Huiqing
(Masters student)
Isabelle Tan
(FYP student)
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Metabolic Changes in Tumor Cells and Tumor-associated Macrophages: Exploring the mutual relationship between macrophage Annexin A1 and breast cancer invasive phenotype
Tasharini Palani
(FYP student)
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The role of Growth factor signaling in stress-induced breast cancer growth and migration