Author: Swaine Chen
Swaine Chen is an Amazon Scholar in Healthcare at AWS, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, and a Group Leader in Bacterial Genomics at the Genome Institute of Singapore. His academic research work combines his training in medicine, biology, chemistry, and mathematics to develop genomic approaches for understanding how and why bacteria are able to cause infections in humans. His lab has several experimental biologists who have fully converted to computational research, and he continues to have a passion for expanding the field of bioinformatics through new recruits.