Professor Warren Chan is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Dr. Warren Chan is the Dean of the College of Engineering and the President’s Chair Professor in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois in 1996, Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2001, post-doctoral training at the University of California (San Diego). He started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto from 2002 and became Full professor in 2012. He was the Canadian Research Chair in Nanoengineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering before joining NTU. His lab develops nanotechnology for diagnosing and treating cancer and infectious diseases. He is an Executive Editor of ACS Nano.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Dr. Warren Chan leads the Integrated Nanotechnology & Biomedical Sciences Laboratory. My research laboratory is interested in developing nanotechnologies for treating and diagnosing cancer and infectious diseases. On the cancer side, we are interested in probing the journey of the nanoparticle inside the body to guide the design of carriers to enhance delivery. On the infectious disease side, we are interested in engineering smartphone point-of-care devices to detect and track the transmission of infectious agents at the onset, transmission, and post- treatment. Researchers in the lab acquire a broad range of skills, including nanomaterial design, polymer synthesis, microfabrication, cell culturing, animal handling, and clinical testing.
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
2006 Rank Prize Fund award in Optoelectronics (England)
2009 Dennis Gabor Award (Hungary)
2012 NSERC E. W. R. Memorial Steacie Fellowship
2015 Kabiller Young Investigator Award in Nanomedicine (Northwestern University)
2020 Norman Rosenblum MD/PhD Mentorship Award
2020-2023 Clarivate top 1% of Most Cited Researcher
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
M. Nguyen, W. Ngo, Z. P. Lin, S. Sindhwani, P. MacMillan, S. M. Mladjenovic, W. C. W. Chan, The mechanism of nanoparticle delivery to solid tumours, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024, 2, 201.
M. Nguyen, Z. P. Lin, S. Sindhwani, P. MacMillan, S. M. Mladjenovic, B. Stordy, W. Ngo, W. C.
W. Chan. The exit of nanoparticles from solid tumours, Nature Materials, 2023, 22, 1261.
W. Ngo, J. L. Y. Wu, Z. P. Lin, Y. Zhang, B. Bussin, A. G. Farias, A. M. Syed, K. Chan, A. Habsid, J. Moffat, W. C. W. Chan, Identifying cell receptors for the nanoparticle protein corona using genome screens, 2022, Nature Chemical Biology, 18, 1023.
Z. P. Lin, L. N. M. Nguyen, B. Ouyang, P. MacMillan, J. Ngai, B. R. Kingston, S. M. Mladjenovic, W. C. W. Chan, Macrophages actively transport nanoparticles in tumours After extravasation, ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 6080.
M. A. A. Mohamed, H. N. Kozlowski, J. Kim, K. Zagorovsky, M. Kantor, J. J. Feld, S. Mubareka, T. Mazzulli, W. C. W. Chan, Diagnosing antibiotic resistance using nucleic acid enzymes and gold nanoparticles, ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 9379.
Udugama, P. Kadhiresan, W. C.W. Chan, Tunable and Precise Miniature Lithium Heater for Point-of-Care Applications, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2020, 117, 9, 4632.