Lim, Su Bin
2020
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Briefly share about your research or thesis (i.e. dissertation topic for Masters by Coursework students).
My research is devoted to extracting clinically meaningful information from ever-expanding genomic databases, identifying new therapeutic targets for the treatment of cancer.
Briefly share a highlight from your graduate school journey.
In the last four years, I have published 13 peer-reviewed research papers with 10 articles as a first author in top journals, including Nature Communications and PNAS. I have also won numerous awards and fellowships during my PhD, including Ray Wu Prize 2018, and International Precision Medicine Conference Prize 2017.
Share a challenge you faced in graduate school and how you overcame it.
Pursuing a science research career in the field that is already interdisciplinary by nature has trained me to be exceptionally independent. It’s a discipline that stretches across many different areas – I write my own code and build bioinformatics pipeline to analyze genomic data requiring programming skills; I develop protocols to analyze the picogram range of total DNA/RNA from single cells requiring molecular biology techniques; I fabricate and utilize microfluidics devices requiring engineering principles.