Prof Yi-Chin Toh

ARC Future Fellow and Professor

PhD in Bioengineering (National University of Singapore)

Yi-Chin Toh is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. She obtained her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D in Bioengineering from the National University of Singapore in 2001 and 2008, respectively. She did her post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Before joining QUT in 2019, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Yi-Chin leads the Micro Tissue Engineering Lab (https://microtelab.com/). Her major scientific contribution is in advancing microfluidic tissue models for applications in drug testing and experimental biology. To date, she has produced 70 peer-reviewed publications (h-index = 30, 3900 citations), eight patent applications, and over 100 conference presentations. Her works on alternative animal technologies have won accolades, such as the Lab on a Chip & Dolomite Pioneers in Miniaturization Lectureship Award (2022) and Global 3R Award (2019). Yi-Chin has taken up various leadership roles in the national and international scientific community. She serves in the Australian Research Council College of Experts, the Scientific Advisory Committee of Lab on a Chip (2022) and AIP Biomicrofluidics (2022), and the editorial board of Springer-Nature Microsystems & Nanotechnology (2023). She also contributes actively to the organization of the MicroTAS conference series, including the Poster Award Committee (2018-2019) and the Executive Technical Program Committee (ETPC) in 2021.

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