Leah Vardy
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Biography
Leah A Vardy is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She has received her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and has completed her Postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge at the MIT, USA. She has authored over 35 peer reviewed scientific articles in a diverse array of systems including yeast, fruit flies, embryonic stem cells and epidermal cells. Her recent lab studies on embryonic stem cells were published in a series of papers. Currently she has been focusing her research on the epidermis and has been addressing the role of the polyamines in skin barrier function, wound healing and tissue repair.