Principal Investigator
Professor Roger Foo
Roger trained with the late Professor David de Bono (British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiology, Leicester) before moving to Cambridge, where he worked under Professor Morris Brown MD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS at the Clinical Pharmacology Unit.
Awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship, Roger joined Professor Rick Kitsis at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC, exploring the molecular regulation of heart failure and cardiomyocyte apoptosis. He returned to Cambridge in 2006 to start Foo Lab 1.0 at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, funded by the British Heart Foundation and Wellcome Trust.
Foo Lab 2.0 was established in Singapore in 2013, expanding into genomics, transcriptomics, and population health. Roger holds several leadership roles at NUS, founded the NUHS Clinician Scientist Academy, and serves as chair of the MOH Clinician Scientist Residency Research Panel and President of the College of Clinician Scientists, Academy of Medicine Singapore.
"Our mission is to make impactful scientific discoveries through world-class research — and to train the next generation of scientists who will change how we understand the heart."
