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Dr Lau Charles

Research Fellow, National Dental Research Institute Singapore

National Dental Centre Singapore

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Dr Charles Lau received his Bachelors in Applied Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2007. After graduation, he worked in the biopharmaceutical industry for 5 years as a protein purification scientist in Lonza Biologics PLC, United Kingdom, and as a manufacturing biotechnologist in Roche Singapore Technical Operations. In 2012 he returned to academia, and 2 years later he received a Master in Industrial Chemistry from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In 2019, Charles graduated from NTU with a PhD in Bioengineering, under the supervision of Professor Teoh Swee Hin. He is now part of the research team in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme, working on biomaterials and animal models for periodontal and oral-maxillofacial regeneration. His PhD work in NTU, which was a collaboration in NDCS, won the best poster award in the Singapore General Hospital 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting in 2019.

Education

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Research Fellow, National Dental Research Institute Singapore

Awards

Research Interests

Biomaterials
- Fish-derived scaffolds in tissue engineering
- 3D-printed polycaprolactone scaffolds in bone regeneration
- Glycosaminoglycan-enriched scaffolds in periodontal regeneration

Tissue engineering
- Bone regeneration, periodontal regeneration, oral-maxillofacial regeneration, skin regeneration

Publications

Lau CS, Hassanbhai AM, Wen F, Wang DA, Chanchareonsook N, Goh BT, Yu N, Teoh SH. Evaluation of decellularized tilapia skin as a tissue engineering scaffold. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2019;13(10): 1779-1791, doi: 10.1002/term.2928.
Hassanbhai AM, Lau CS, Wen F, Jayaraman P, Goh BT, Yu N, Teoh SH. In vivo immune responses of cross-linked electrospun tilapia collagen membrane. Tissue Eng Part A. 2017; 23(19-20):1110-1119, doi: 10.1089/ten.tea.2016.0504.
Wen F, Lau CS, Lim J, Liao Y, Teoh SH, Chong MSK. Surface modification of tissue engineering scaffolds. In: Gao C (ed). Polymeric Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration. Springer Singapore, 2016. p. 123-150, doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2293-7_6.