Dr Lau Quek Choon

Name:                         

​​Lau Quek Choon

​Designation:

​​Deputy Director​ (Student Development & Outreach​​)

Address: ​

School of Life Sciences and Chemical Technology
Blk 83, #05-00, Singapore 599489​

Tel:     ​

(65) 6460 8618

Email: ​

LAU_Quek_Choon@np.edu.sg

Education:

• PhD (Philipps University Marburg, Germany)

• MSc (Microbiology, NUS)

• BSc. Hons (Microbiology, NUS)

My favourite quote by Albert Einstein:

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Please visit my LinkedIn page here . 

Professional Expertise​:

Antibiotic resistant bacteria, Microbiome and gut health, Cancer fatigue, Cell cycle and cell death, Neuroscience

Awards & Achievements​:

• School Teaching Award (2008, 2009, 2012, 2014)

• Excellent Service Award, SPRING (Silver 2008, Star 2015)​

• Singapore Accreditation Council Assessor Award (Silver 2012, Gold 2016)

Publications, Patents, Projects, Consultancy:

• Social Innovation Research Fund (2016-2018) Identifying and developing probiotics as food supplement to reduce cancer fatigue. In collaboration with National Cancer Centre, National University of Singapore and National University Health System.

• MOE Translational Innovation Fund (2017-2019). Optimisation and Testing of a Novel Diagnostic Platform for Parkinson’s Disease. In collaboration with Singapore General Hospital.

• Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing  Enterobacteriaceae in Retail Chicken Meat in Singapore. Lim EJ, Ho SX, Cao DY, Lau QC, Koh TH, Hsu LY. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2016 Dec; 45(12):557-559.