Prof Cheng Ching-yu

Biography

Professor Cheng is an epidemiologist and ophthalmologist. He leads epidemiological research of major eye diseases at SERI and heads the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) Program. A/Professor Cheng completed his preventive ophthalmology research fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute and attained his PhD in genetic epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Other concurrent positions Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Research Interest

Professor Cheng’s primary research interests are related to the epidemiology and genetics of major eye diseases. His current work involves in a variety of epidemiological, clinical, and image research for glaucoma, and identification of susceptibility genes for complex ocular diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, myopia and glaucoma, using both genome-wide association approaches and next-generation sequencing technology.