CHAN Chun Yong

Professor Eric Chan is a pharmaceutical scientist in the Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore (NUS) (2006-current). His research interests are (1) metabolism-driven systems biology modelling of diseases, pharmacology, toxicology and mammalian host-bacteria interactions and (2) xenobiotic-derived reactive metabolite research with specific focus on interaction with biological proteins and physiological-based pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PBPK-PD) modelling of pharmacology and toxicology.

Professor Chan is currently Chair of Department Graduate Committee (2018-current), a member of the SFA Novel Food Safety Expert Working Group (2021-2023) and an affiliate member of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) (2018-2021). He is an editorial advisory board member of the Biochemical Pharmacology (Elsevier, 2018-current), Drug Metabolism and Disposition (American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), 2019-current), Journal of Chromatography B (Elsevier, 2008-current) and Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (NUS Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, 2018-2022). He is a grant review board member for the Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) in Hong Kong (2013-current). He is a registered pharmacist under the Singapore Pharmacy Council, Ministry of Health (2001 to current) and a member of the ASPET.

Professor Chan was awarded the Dean’s Chair Professorship in the Faculty of Science (2015-2018). He was six times a recipient of the Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award and four times the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award. He also received the Faculty of Science Young Scientist Award (2010) and Outstanding Scientist Award (2014). He was awarded the NUS Overseas Attachment Programme (OAP) and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) research training fellowships at the Imperial College London (2008) and University of Washington (2012) respectively.

Professor Chan was Chair of the Department Safety Committee (2008-2011), Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Programmes, 2011-2013), Vice Dean (Undergraduate Studies and Student Life, 2013-2014) and member of the Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee (2016-2018). He also served previously as the editorial board member for the Journal of Proteome Research (American Chemical Society, 2013-2016) and Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (Wiley, 2006-2016), Council Member of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) (2019-2020), Scientific Affairs Committee Member of the ISSX (2016-2020), adjunct principal investigator at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) (2016-2020) and platform lead under the Innovations in Food and Chemical Safety (IFCS) Programme at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (2018-2020).

Companies

• Professor National University of Singapore (2019)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2010 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2006 — 2010)
• Senior Market Development Manager Waters Corporation (2004 — 2006)
• Research Scientist S*BIO Pte Ltd (2001 — 2004)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD National University of Singapore (1997 — 2000)