Certificate of Achievement in Intensive Engineering Course: Medical Device Prototyping

Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Certificate of Religious Knowledge

Far Eastern Bible College, Singapore

Certificate of Biblical Studies,

Far Eastern Bible College, Singapore

Certificate of Participation in Writing in the Sciences

Stanford University, USA

Certificate in Introduction to Chaos and Dynamical Systems. Santa Fe Institute, USA

Certificate in Commercial Law & Technology Transfer.

Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore

Certificate in Introduction to Complex Systems

Santa Fe Institute, USA

Diploma in Biotechnology

Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore

Associate of King’s College

King’s College London, UK

BSc (Hons) in Psychology.

Open University, UK

Chartered Graduate Member of British Psychological Society, UK.

Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice.

King’s College London, UK

Associate member of Higher Education Academy, UK.

BSc (Hons) in Molecular Cell Biology.

University College London, UK

Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration.

Open University Business School, UK

MSc with Merit in Structural Biology

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

PhD in Allergy.

King’s College London, UK

Scientific Writing and Presentation

Special Topics in Biology – Protein Engineering for Drug Design and Development

Samuel Ken-En Gan graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a Diploma in Biotechnology. He attained his BSc (Hons) in Molecular Cell Biology from University College London before embarking on his Masters in Structural Biology from Birkbeck College and Ph.D. in Allergy from King’s College London simultaneously with his BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Open University, Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and the Associate of King’s College, both from King’s College London. Gan is also trained in theology, business admin, and commercial law & tech transfer. He is a member of the Higher Education Academy UK, the British Psychological Society, Biochemical Society UK, Allergy & Clinical Immunology Society Singapore, and the New York Academy of Sciences.

He is currently an adjunct associate professor & Advisor Mentor for graduate (including Ph.D students) in James Cook University, Singapore, as well as associate senior lecturer in a few teaching institutions in Singapore. During his time as Senior Principal Investigator of the Antibody and Product Development (APD) Lab within the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) between September 2011 to April 2022, he founded a startup for scientific phone apps, consultancy, research and educational kits in 2017, which also housed the first and only specialized journal “Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices” on mobile apps and IoT devices transferred from SpringerNature. Gan also set up a new open-access student journal “APD Trove in 2017 and serves as founding Editor-in-Chief for both journals. Apart from the two journals he founded, he also served as associate editor for Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Virology, and guest editor for the ‘Methods and protocols’ journal by MDPI and Frontiers in Psychology.

Samuel 于2009年毕业于伦敦国王学院分子生物学并取得博士学位，自2010年开始在新加坡顶级科研机构-新加坡科技研究局（A*STAR）担任最高研究职位-高级项目负责人（Senior Principal Investigator）。此外，申请人也具有管理学和计算机科学的背景，担任新加坡James Cook大学、新加坡新跃社科大学等高校的兼职副教授。

Samuel以项目负责人身份主持过十余项科研项目，总项目经费超过2200万人民币，在各自领域的顶级期刊上发表论文100余篇（JACI for allergy -also Editor’s Pick, Bioinformatics, Protein　Science等），授权1项专利。因其优秀的学术能力，受邀担任多个顶级期刊的编委会成员((Frontiers in Immunology, Virology 等)，并获得首届英国校友2021-22“科学与可持续发展”奖(国家级别)，默克首届实验室2020铜奖(国际创新水平)，SP Jain的创新中心2017-18年30个“世界级融合者”(国际奖项)之一，A*STAR(国家)代表(由纽约科学院和日本的AMED在2018年和2022年主办)。
Samuel的研究领域为结构分子生物学在抗体工程和病毒靶向/耐药方面的应用。申请人整合了计算机科学、分子生物学、 智能手机应用程序开发和设备开发，以实现治疗和诊断的新结果，并利用其商科背景将研究成果转化为产品并提供CRO服务，仅在2021-22年，实验室就可以创造约16-50万新加坡元的产出，同时为A*STAR COVID – 19工作组在诊断产品和试剂盒开发方面的5个项目提供了帮助。
Samuel在整体蛋白工程方面的工作，除了在国家治疗性抗体人化中实施外，还被用于新加坡共和理工学院、新加坡新跃社科大学和新加坡James Cook大学的三级教学，并创建了认证的学位级别课程。 在A*STAR过去的10年里，Samuel培训和指导了170多名大专学生和年轻的职业研究人员，其中大多数人完成了他们的出版或原型产品，实验室开发了大约50个智能手机应用程序，创建了超过10个认证课程，并开发了大约20个原型和研究试剂。

Allergy, Protein Engineering, Antibody Engineering, Viral Mutations, Mutation prediction, Behavioral Psychology, Arduino, Device prototyping, Smartphone apps

Interdisciplinary research, combining the above.

~100 publications, mostly as corresponding author

 https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=3zUyNmYAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel-Ken-En-Gan

Gan SKE. Phua SX, Yeo JY (2021) Sagacious Epitope Selection for Vaccines, and Both Antibody-Based Therapeutics and Diagnostics: Tips From Virology and Oncology. Antibody Therapeutics 21 February 2022, DOI: 10.1093/abt/tbac005.  IF 5.20

Gan SKE, Derrick JP, Fraternali F (2022) Editorial: Understanding and Engineering Antibody-Superantigen Interactions. Frontiers in Immunology 2022, 9 February 2022, Vol 13, pp 1-3. Art: 857339. Doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.857339. IF 8.786

Yeo JY, Gan SKE (2021) Peering Into Avian Influenza A(H5N8) for a Framework towards Pandemic Preparedness. Viruses 15 November 2021, 13, 2276. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13112276. Preprints 2021, 2021090506. doi: 10.20944/preprints202109.0506.v1

Kuan ZJ, Chan BKN, Gan SKE (2022) Worming the Circular Economy for Biowaste and Plastics: Hermetia illucens, Tenebrio molitor, and Zophobas morio. Preprints 2021, 2021110518 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202111.0518.v1). Sustainability 29 January 2022, 14, 1594. DOI: 10.3390/su14031594

Poh JJ, Wu WL, Goh NWJ, Tan SMX, Gan SKE (2021). Spectrophotometer On-The-Go: The Development of a 2-IN-1 UV-Vis portable Arduino-based Spectrophotometer. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 1 Jul 2021, 325: 112698. Doi: 10.1016/j.sna.2021.112698.

Nguyen PV, Verma CS, Gan SKE. (2014) DNAApp: a mobile application for sequencing data analysis. Bioinformatics. 5 August 2014 ;30(22):3270-1. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu525.

Tech disclosure filed Mar 2014: BII/Z/08384;

Covered in over 80 news agencies worldwide, including Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Life Scientist, etc. *Corresponding author.

1st in Top 10 apps for busy researchers (Biotechniques 2014).

Choo BJK*, Cheok TS*, Gunasegaran D, Wan KS, Quek YS, Tan CSL, Quek BK, Gan SKE. (2020) The Sound of Music on the Pocket: A Study of Background Music in Retail. SocArXiv. May 24. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/7a45h. Psychology of Music. 21 September 2020. 49(5), pp. 1381–1400. doi: 10.1177/0305735620958472

Gan SKE, Lim MJ, Haw YX. (2015) The Relaxation Effects of Stimulative and Sedative Music on Mathematics Anxiety: A Perception to Physiology Model. Psychology of Music. 19 June 2015; 44(4): 730–741. DOI:10.1177/0305735615590430.

Heng ZSL, Koh DWS, Yeo JY, Ooi CP, Gan SKE (2021). Effects of different delivery modes on teaching biomedical science practical skills in higher education during the 2021 pandemic measures. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 27 May 2022. DOI: 10.1002/bmb.21637