Principal Investigator
Professor Julien Lescar
With over 30 years of experience in X-ray crystallography, professor Lescar came to the lovely island called Singapore in 2002 and started his lab in School of Biological Sciences in NTU.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Abbas El Sahili
Trained in France during his PhD, Abbas decided to give the tropics a try and came to Singapore in 2015.
Dr. Wong Yee Hwa
Handling finance and purchasing. Long-standing member of the lab.
Dr. Syed Moiz Ahmed
Dr. Syed earned a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from NTU in Peter Dröge’s laboratory. In June 2020, he transitioned to a postdoctoral position at CSI-NUS in Prof. Ashok Venkitaraman’s laboratory, where they investigated the specific roles of BRCA2 in genome integrity and chemotherapy response. Dr. Syed joined us in August 2024, focusing on the development of next-generation antibodies and antibody memetics with potential therapeutic applications in cancer treatment.
Research Staff
Srujana Kishore
Research Associate
Lin Jianqing
Jianqing is a research associate/part-time PhD. He has a research interest in structural biology, with expertise in protein X-ray crystallography and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and decent proficiency in SEC-MALS, Co-IP, ELISA, SPR, Cloning, MicroScale Thermophoresis etc. He obtained bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Nanyang Technological University in 2014. Click here for his list of publications.
PhD Students
Chen Wei Min
Final year PhD student, working on protein ligases and antibodies.
Ankita R.
We welcome visiting scholars from all around the world. If you are interested, please drop an email at Julien@ntu.edu.sg
Former members
Zara, Chung Shi Ying
Former PhD student. Zara's research focused mainly on the interactions between antimalarial compounds and its protein targets, including the biochemical and structural validation of purine nucleoside phosphorylase from plasmodium falciparum as a target of antimalarial compound MMV000848.
Saranya Veerappan
Saranya is a Researh Associate, having completed her master's degree in Biomedical engineering at NTU (School of mechanical and aerospace engineering) in the year of 2012, with 6 years of experience in protein production and purification in bacterial cell and mammalian cell.
Dr. Goh Boon Chong
Boon Chong was a principal research scientist at SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) with a joint appointment with NTU Institute of Structural Biology. His research focuses on the development of novel antimicrobial agents using protein engineering, high throughput screening and X-ray crystallography. Boon Chong received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of the late Prof. Klaus Schulten in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group at the Beckman Institute. Visit bcgoh.com for more information.
Dr. Aicha Gharbi Ayachi
Former Post-doc
Chua Ni Ying
Former PhD student
Law Yuen Wei
Former research associate
Dr. Qian Xinlei
Former Post-doc
Jia Huan
Former PhD student
Hu Side
Former PhD student
Farhana Bt Abdul Bakar
Former PhD student
Dario Heymann
Former PhD student
Swathi Pasunooti
Former project officer
Tan Siok Thing
Former research associate
Akshita Kumar
Former PhD student
Yeo Tiong Han
Former PhD student
Dr. Li Xiaokang
Visiting scholar from China