Professor Koh is Professor in Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS).She earned her MBBS (Honours) from NUS, completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Sydney in Australia, and received postdoctoral training in epidemiology at the University of Southern California in the USA.Being a population health scientist, Prof Koh’s research is in studying the epidemiology of important chronic diseases in Singapore and worldwide. She is the Principal Investigator of the 63,257-strong Singapore Chinese Health Study, and has co-authored about 500 scientific papers on diet, lifestyle and genes in relation to risk of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, end-stage kidney disease, gout, Parkinson’s disease, gout, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. More recently, she has also published on factors that could influence important ageing outcomes such as physical frailty, cognitive impairment and aging-related depression. She is listed among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists by Stanford University and has received over $35 million dollars in funding from National Institutes of Health (NIH) in USA and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) in Singapore. She is a recipient of the NMRC Clinician-Scientist Senior Investigator Award. In her role as Assistant Dean and Director for the NUS School of Medicine Clinician-Scientist Development Unit, she mentors budding clinician-scientists and was awarded the Nature Awards for Mentoring in 2023 in recognition of her achievement as a mentor to many in their academic careers in Singapore.

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