02/2026: Welcome Finja as intern
01/2026: Jiah Shin is awarded NMRC's Open Fund-Young individual research grant (OF-YIRG), an independent national level grant!
01/2026: Welcome Kim as NTU FYP student
12/2025: Lay Lab year-end Christmas party. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!



12/2025: Welcome Mandy as Research Fellow
11/2025: Lay Lab was involved in hosting the 6th Singapore International Skin Conference
10/2025: Congratulations on Jiah Shin's start-up Argonaute Lifesciences featured at Switch 2025!

10/2025: Welcome Jonathan as Senior Research Officer
08/2025: Kenneth is awarded the A*STAR Fellowship! Read about it in this LinkedIn feature and A*STAR Research: Driving Science to New Horizons

08/2025: Kenneth is appointed as A*STAR Skin Research Labs' Research Theme Lead in Skin Disease to help advance strategic and scientific direction of the institute
06/2025: Welcome Ju Hea as Research Officer
05/2025: Welcome Venus as NTU FYP student
04/2025: Jiah Shin represented A*SRL and shared her work on chronic wounds at Taiwan Regenerative Medicine Summit



03/2025: Jiah Shin is awarded A*STAR's Career Development Fund (CDF), an early career research grant!
03/2025: Welcome Aisha Saleem as ARAP PhD student
03/2025: Kenneth presented his joint lab work on skin organoids as invited speaker and panellist at Organoid Day 2025, a 1-day symposium organized by STEMCELL Technologies


02/2025: Lay Lab participated in A*SRL Away Day, where staff and students share scientific updates, foster collaborations and strengthen working relationships



02/2025: Kenneth attended the EMBO Lab Leadership Course, along with stellar scientists selected from across Singapore. A premium avenue to develop your leadership skills and lead your lab to advance the frontiers of science

From left: Kenneth, Giulia Adriani (SIgN, A*STAR), Liang Wei Wang (SIgN, A*STAR), Lynn Yap (LKCMedicine, NTU), Boxiang Liu (NUS Pharmacy), Céline Carret (EMBO course instructor), Bin Wu (NTU SBS), Brandon Morinaka (NUS Pharmacy), Kok Hao Chen (GIS, A*STAR), Hong Yong Peh (LSI Immunology, NUS) and Dennis Kappei (NUS Biochemistry)
01/2025: Welcome Elise Lauw as NTU FYP student
