Our work on maintaining tumor explants using bioengineered hydrogels is featured on The Straits Times and NUS News!
Oct 2025 - Changchong and Donghua have been awarded TERMIS-AP 2025 SYIS Best Poster Presentation!
November 2023 - Kanishka has been awarded TERMIS-AP 2023 SYIS Best Poster Presentation!
March 2023 - We have been awarded the prestigious NMRC-OF Individual Research Grant!! See news here.
March 2023 - Check out our new review paper on leveraging technologies to revive patient-derived tumor explant cultures! Link here.
May 2022 - Our work on recapitulating cancer-endothelial crosstalk using organoids and engineered hydrogels has been featured by NUS News! Link here
April 2022 - Our work on recapitulating cancer-endothelial crosstalk using organoids and engineered hydrogels is now online at Biomaterials! Link here.
April 2022 - We have just been awarded the 2021 MOE AcRF Tier 2 research grant!
Dec 2021 - The special issue that Dr. Fong co-edited in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews is now done! Next Generation in vitro Tumor Models Guiding Cancer Therapy -- Link here.
July 2021 - Dr. Eliza Fong is featured under Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator- Link here.
June 2021 - We are excited that our review article 'Engineering Stromal Heterogeneity in Cancer' is now in press in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!! Link Here.
May 2021 - Our review article 'Hot or Cold: Bioengineering Immune Contextures into In Vitro Patient-Derived Tumor Models' is now in press in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!! Link Here.
Jan 2021 - Our review article on 'Hydrogels to Engineer the Tumor Microenvironment' has just been featured in Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators 2021 theme issue! Biomaterials Science, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0BM01943G
16 July 2020 - Big congrats to Omer for successfully proposing and passing his Ph.D. thesis with flying colors!!!
