Andy Tay Kah Ping

Education

• Bachelor’s in Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) First Class Honours, NUS
• PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
• Brunel Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Research Interests

• Magnetic biomaterials
• Mechanobiology Medicine
• Immuno-engineering

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• 1851 Royal Commission Brunel Fellow Imperial College London (2019 — 2020)
• Postdoc Scholar Stanford University (2018 — 2019)
• Summer Intern Scholar RIKEN (2017 — 2017)
• Endeavour Research Fellow UNSW (2017 — 2017)
• PhD Student University of California, Los Angeles (2014 — 2017)
• Bavaria California Technology Center Summer Scholar Universität Bayreuth (2016 — 2016)
• SMURF Scholar NUS (2013 — 2014)
• Student Researcher Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (2012 — 2012)

Selected Awards & Honours

Academic & Entrepreneurship

• Early-Career Faculty Award, Interstellar Initiative, 2020
• Alessandro Chiabrera Award, Bioelectromagnetics Society, 2020
• Young Scientist, World Economic Forum, 2020
• NUS Development Grant, NUS, 2020
• Yamaguchi Medal, Asian Pacific Association for Biomechanics, 2019
• The III Siena Think Tank Young Investigator Fellowship, NIBIT Foundation, 2019
• Singapore Commonwealth Fellowship in Innovation, RSC Singapore, 2019
• Brunel Fellow, 1851 Royal Commission, 2019
• 30 Under 30, Forbes (4% acceptance rate), 2019
• Travel Award, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (1 of 5 awardees), 2019
• 8th Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar, University of Washington, 2018
• Harry M Showman Prize (Commencement Award), UCLA, 2018
• Travel Fellowship, 68th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, 2018
• MRS Bulletin Postdoc Publication Prize, Materials Research Society (Out of >120 applicants), 2017
• Springer These Prize, Springer, 2017
• SciFinder Future Leaders Program, American Chemical Society (out of >400 applicants), 2017
• Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience, Toshihiko Tokizane Brain Research Promotion Fund (1 of 5 awardees internationally), 2017
• IBRO-APRC Travel and Short Stay Fellowship, IBRO, 2017
• Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australia Department of Education, 2017
• University Fellowship, UCLA, 2016
• Helmsley Fellowship, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2016

Selected Journal Publications

• Andy Tay. The benefits of going small: Nanostructure for mammalian cell transfection. ACS Nano (2020).
• Andy Tay & Melosh, N. Transfection with nanostructured electro-injection is minimally perturbative. Advanced Therapeutics (2019).
• Andy Tay, Sohrabi, A., Poole, K., Seidlitis, S. & Di Carlo, D. 3D magnetic hyaluronic acid hydrogels for magneto-mechanical stimulation of primary dorsal root ganglion root neurons. Advanced Materials (2018).
• Andy Tay, Murray, C. & Di Carlo, D. Phenotypic selection of Magnetospirillum magneticum (AMB-1) over-producers using magnetic ratcheting. Advanced Functional Materials (2017).
• Andy Tay & Di Carlo, D. Magnetic nanoparticle-based mechanical stimulation for restoration of mechano-sensitive ion channel equilibrium in neuronal networks. Nano Letters (2017).
• Andy Tay, Kunze, A., Murray, C. & Di Carlo, D. Induction of calcium influx in cortical neural networks by nano-magnetic forces. ACS Nano (2016).