NG Wei Long

Dr Ng Wei Long was a recipient of the prestigious A*STAR Graduate Scholarship awarded by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He joined the Bio-Manufacturing Programme as a PhD student in 2013 under a collaborative project with Nanyang Technological University and was conferred his degree in 2017. During his candidature, Wei Long achieved a breakthrough by developing a novel process to fabricate skin constructs with uniform pigmentation using 3D bioprinting. After this work was published in a landmark paper in Biofabrication, the journal featured it in its press release and it was subsequently picked up by industry experts as well as the national newspaper of Singapore, The Straits Times.

His current research interest is in 3D bioprinting of human-based tissue models for toxicology/chemical testing. He has been working intensively on skin bioprinting over the last 6 years to leverage on the advances in 3D bioprinting technology to fabricate scalable source of in-vitro human skin models for fundamental dermatology and potential animal-free cosmetics testing. As a young researcher, his research work has great influence in the field of 3D bioprinting – he has co-authored 2 book chapters, 24 technical papers with >800 citations and H-index of 15.

Education

• Nanyang Technological University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 3D Bioprinting 2013 - 2017
• Nanyang Technological University, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Bioengineering 2009 - 2013