Translational
Tumor Engineering
Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering National University of Singapore
The TTE group leverages biomaterials to engineer in vitro and ex vivo tumors for personalized drug testing
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 -- preface here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169409X21004403?dgcid=author
Oct 2021 - We are hiring! Post-Doctoral position available for Singaporean/SPR PhD holders. PD is required to lead industry-funded project to develop patient-derived tumor slice models. Background in cancer immunology preferred.
July 2021 - Dr. Eliza Fong is featured under Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator; read more here: https://blogs.rsc.org/bm/2021/07/05/biomaterials-science-emerging-investigator-eliza-fong/?doing_wp_cron=1625645766.0538840293884277343750
June 2021 - We are excited that our review article 'Engineering Stromal Heterogeneity in Cancer' is now in press in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21001915
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!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21001575
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!!!
Growing liver cancer patient-derived xenograft cells using 3D scaffolds
Dr. Eliza Fong: L’ORÉAL For Women In Science Singapore National Fellowship 2019 Runner-Up (Physical and Engineering Sciences)
