Dr Charles Lau

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. Charles returned to academia in 2012, received a Master in Industrial Chemistry from the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2014 and graduated from NTU in 2019 with a PhD in Bioengineering, under the supervision of Professor Teoh Swee Hin.

He is now part of the research team in the National Dental Research Institute Singapore, working on biomaterials and animal models for periodontal and oral-maxillofacial regeneration. His PhD work in NTU, which was a collaboration with Dr Yu Na, NDCS, won the best poster award in the Singapore General Hospital 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting in 2019, while his work on bioresorbable scaffolds for alveolar augmentation, under the supervision of Dr Goh Bee Tin, NDCS, won the best poster award in the Singapore General Hospital 24rd Annual Scientific Meeting in 2022.

• ​Senior Research Fellow, National Dental Research Institute Singapore
• Adjunct Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School

• Hu J, Zhong Y, Huang S, Lau CS, Ethiraj LP, Goh BT, Zhang B, Zhang X, Kuang Z, Engineered with tannic acid–magnesium metal-phenolic frameworks: A multifunctional 3D-printed PCL/TCP scaffold for bone regeneration, 2026, 185, 214893
• Ma J, Chia C, Sapasakulvanit S, Zhang Y, Lau CS, Sim CPC, Le Ferrand H, Bioinspired Microstructured Ceramic-Hydrogel Composites with Controlled Release of Ca2+ and Mechanical Stability, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2026, 9(2), 1193-1205
• Lau CS, Park SY, Ethiraj LP, Singh P, Raj G, Quek J, Prasadh S, Choo Y, Goh BT, Role of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Bone Regeneration, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024, 25, 6085
• Lau CS, Chua J, Prasadh S, Lim J, Saigo L, Goh BT, Alveolar Ridge Augmentation with a Novel Combination of 3D-Printed Scaffolds and Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells—A Pilot Study in Pigs, Biomedicines, 2023, 11, 2274
• Luo X, Lau CS, Le BQ, Tan TC, Too JH, Smith RAA, Yu N, Cool SM, Affinity-selected heparan sulfate collagen device promotes periodontal regeneration in an intrabony defect model in Macaca fascicularis, Scientific Reports, 2023, 13, 11774
• Lau CS, Chua J, Pena EM, Lim J, Saigo L, Goh BT, A Porcine Model Using Adipose Stem Cell-Loaded Scaffolds for Alveolar Ridge Augmentation, Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 2022, 28(5), 228-237
• Liu SQ, Lau CS, Liang K, Wen F, Teoh SH, Marine Collagen Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022, 74, 92-103
• Liu SQ, Wen F, Muthukumaran P, Rakshit M, Lau CS, Yu N, Suryani L, Dong YB, Teoh SH, Self-Assembled Nanofibrous Marine Collagen Matrix Accelerates Healing of Full-Thickness Wounds, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2021, 4(9), 7044-7058
• Lau CS, Hassanbhai AM, Wen F, Wang DA, Chanchareonsook N, Goh BT, Yu N, and Teoh SH, Evaluation of Decellularized Tilapia Skin as a Tissue Engineering Scaffold, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2019, 13(10), 1779-1791
• Hassanbhai AM, Lau CS, Wen F, Jayaraman P, Goh BT, Yu N, and Teoh SH, In Vivo Immune Responses of Cross-Linked Electrospun Tilapia Collagen Membrane, Tissue Engineering Part A, 2017, 23(19-20), 1110-1119