Dr Yong Chen

Biography

Chen Yong graduated from the Medical school of Wuhan University (Wuhan ,China) in 1995 and received the Zhuang Huai Award for the best medical student. He received surgical training and obtained the Master degree of surgery in 1998 in the same medical school. From 2001 to 2006, he conducted biomedical research in Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in Singapore as Junior research fellow and received Ph.D in Biochemistry from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Singapore) in 2006. He continued worked as a postdoctoral fellow in IMCB for 3 years before he returned to clinical practice in Pediatric Surgery, in KK women’s and children’s Hospital in 2009. Now, he is a senior staff registrar in pediatric surgery. In his 9-years working in IMCB , Dr Chen Yong conducted research in a variety of fields including investigating the function of autocrine growth hormone in breast cancer and studying the role of GRIM-19 gene in heart development and innate immunity. His current research interest mainly focuses on human Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating disease and leading cause of mortality in premature infants. He obtained the Surgical ACP seeding grant in 2014 on NEC study. His study has revealed the primary role of ischemia in pathogenesis of NEC. He is now investigating the regulation of neonatal intestinal blood flow and trying to develop a therapeutic method to enhance intestinal blood supply in order to prevent and treat NEC.

Research Interest

Clinical risk factors and molecular mechanism of human necrotising enterocolitis, Intestinal blood flow regulation in neonate, Pathogenesis of biliary atresia , Translational research in paediatric oncology.