Dr Yi-Chin Toh obtained her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering and PhD in Bioengineering from the National University of Singapore in 2001 and 2008 respectively. She did her post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 before joining the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR as a research scientist in 2010. Since 2014, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore. Yi-Chin’s research interest is in engineering multi-tissue in vitro models to mimic complex biological interactions during human development and diseases, and translate them into scalable platforms for disease modeling and drug testing applications. Dr Toh is a recipient of the National University of Singapore Research Scholarship, A*STAR Graduate Scholarship and A*STAR International Fellowship.
Read her full Emerging Investigator Series article “A liver-immune coculture array for predicting systemic drug-induced skin sensitization” and find out more about her in the video interview below:
