Wei Lin Lee

Passionate about innovative technologies, translational research and entrepreneurship. Possesses over a decade of experience spanning biomedical research, entrepreneurship, grant applications and project executions. Currently building platforms for pathogen diagnostics in complex matrices like wastewater.

Wei Lin is a Principal Research Scientist in the AntiMicrobial Resistance interdisciplinary research group of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Her most recent grants include an Ignition grant from the SMART Innovation Centre for discovery of compounds for the modulation of the skin microbiome. She joined SMART in 2016 when she received the SMART postdoctoral fellowship to work on mechanisms of RNA modification involving phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance in Enterococci. In recognition of her postdoctoral work on antimicrobial resistance, she was awarded the 2017 Young Investigator Award by the Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) and Institut Mérieux. She received a Young Individual Research Grant (YIRG) from NMRC in 2016 for unravelling pathogen-host interactomes in sexually transmitted Chlamydia. She did her undergraduate in National University of Singapore in life sciences with a minor in technopreneurship; and with a scholarship from A*STAR, completed her DPhil in Clinical Medicine in Oxford University in 2014.