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, New York City, 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 at the NUS Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR. The lab has since grown to over 50 members spanning basic science, clinical research, and population health.
Roger founded the NUHS Clinician Scientist Academy and serves as chair of the MOH Clinician Scientist Residency Research Panel. He is President of the College of Clinician Scientists, Academy of Medicine Singapore, and holds multiple leadership roles across NUS Medicine and NUHS.
His research spans cardiac genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, stem cell biology, and population-level cardiovascular prevention — unified by a mission to make impactful scientific discoveries and train the next generation of clinician-scientists in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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