Neuroscience & Mental Health

NMHP
Director: LIM Kah Leong
Co-Directors: Mythily
 SUBRAMANIAM & Nagaendran KANDIAH

Understanding the brain is the greatest challenge in biomedical science and LKCMedicine has recruited an outstanding group of faculty to tackle this challenge. The research interests of our faculty range from the molecular biology of the brain up to human cognition and brain disorders. Our unifying research themes are neurodegenerative disorders, brain cell biology and neural circuits. Neuroscience and Mental Health faculty work in close collaboration at both the Clinical Sciences Building in Novena and within the Experimental Medicine Building at the NTU Main Campus. Our Co-Directors and many of our adjunct faculty are clinician-scientists, providing us with strong links to the premier clinical neuroscience institutions in Singapore.

The research efforts of our faculty are aided by interactions with our numerous joint and adjunct faculty who are based at other NTU Schools, as well as at other institutions within Singapore and around the world. Further, we benefit from the presence of state-of-the-art research facilities, including the NTU Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre, the Dementia Research Programme Collaboratorium, Dementia Research Centre (Singapore)Brain Bank Singapore, advanced imaging facilities such as super-resolution and multi-photon microscopes, and excellent vivarium facilities for animal models such as rodents, non-human primates, and zebrafish.


Primary Faculty

Anna Barron

Mythily SUBRAMANIAM
(Institute of Mental Health)

Anna Barron
Anna BARRON
Neurobiology of ageing 
& disease
Christine Cheung
Christine CHEUNG
Molecular & vascular 
medicine
Ch'ng Toh Hean
CH'NG Toh Hean
Neurobiology of 
long-term memory
Foo Jia Nee
FOO Jia Nee
Genetics & genomics of neurological diseases
Tsukasa Kamigaki
Systems Neuroscience
Nagaendran Kandiah
Clinical-translational research in Alzheimer's Disease & Vascular Dementia 

Lim Kah Leong
LIM Kah Leong
Neurodegenerative disorders, especially Parkinson's Disease
Yasunori Saheki

Yasunori SAHEKI
Cell biology & molecular neuroscience

Nagaendran Kandiah
Gut-Brain Neurobiology

Joint & Adjunct Faculty

Neuroscience
• CHEW Sing Yian (NTU School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering)
• FU Yu (Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
• Owen KO (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Atsushi IRIKI (RIKEN)

Brain Disorders
• Adeline NG (Singapore National Neuroscience Institute)
• TAN Chin Hong (NTU School of Social Sciences)e)
• TAN Eng King (Singapore National Neuroscience Institute)
• Crystal YEO (Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
• YEO Tianrong (Singapore National Neuroscience Institute)
• ZENG Li (Singapore National Neuroscience Institute)

Cognitive Science
• Annabel CHEN (NTU School of Social Sciences)
• Victoria LEONG (NTU School of Social Sciences)

Imaging Technologies
• George CHANDY (U.C. Irvine)
• Veikko JOUSMAKI (Aalto University)
• LIANG Kaicheng (Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
• John SUCKLING (Cambridge University)
• Peter TOROK (NTU School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences)

Mental Health
• Ann Siow CHONG (Singapore Institute of Mental Health)
• CHUA Hong Choon (Singapore Institute of Mental Health)
• Jimmy LEE (Singapore Institute of Mental Health)
• Colin TAN (Tan Tock Seng Hospital)
• TOR Phern Chern (Singapore. Institute of Mental Health)
• Melvyn ZHANG (Singapore Institute of Mental Health)