Freddy Y C Boey

Biography

Dr. Boey is a co-founder of Amaranth Medical, Inc and is the current deputy president and provost at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. From 2005-2010, he was chair of NTU’s School of Materials Science & Engineering, building the school into one of the world’s largest research intensive materials science and engineering departments. He has made significant research contributions in the use of functional biomaterials for developing medical devices capable of drug release for cardiovascular, ocular, and surgical implants. Dr. Boey holds 27 primary patents, many of which have been licensed to the five venture-backed, start-up companies he has founded. These patents derive from the research platform he built at NTU, based on the major grants he championed and won. In the last four years, he received more than $42 million in grants, including a prestigious $10 million individual National Research Foundation (NRF) grant for his work on fully biodegradable cardiovascular implants, and a $20 million NRF Technion-Singapore grant for his research in nanomedicine for cardiovascular diseases. Among his many accolades, Dr. Boey was awarded Singapore’s Public Administration Silver Medal by the Government of Singapore in 2010. He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore and serves as a board director in IPOS, under the Ministry of Law, and in the Defense Science Organization under the Ministry of Defense. Dr. Boey received a bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from Monash University and a Ph.D. in chemistry and engineering from National University of Singapore.

Research Interest

cardiology