On February 18, 2022, the Department of Biomedical Engineering welcomed a new faculty member.
Lei Ye, M.D., Ph.D., joins the Department as an associate professor. Ye was previously an associate professor at Duke-NUS Medical School at the National University of Singapore. He served as the principal investigator at the National Heart Research Institute in Singapore’s National Heart Centre since 2016.
Ye received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2005. He completed postdoctoral training in multipotent adult progenitor cells at the University of Minnesota and human pluripotent stem cell biology and reprogramming and in vitro differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into cardiovascular lineages at Stanford University. He completed his residency in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the ZhongShan Hospital in Shanghai before serving as a Research Assistant in both the Department of Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital at the University of Hong Kong and the National University Medical Institutes at the National University of Singapore.
It was in the National University Medical Institutes that he served as research fellow and research scientist before joining the National University of Singapore’s Cardiovascular Research Institute as senior research scientist. In 2010, Ye began in his first faculty position as assistant professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Medicine.
Ye has been a member of the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology, and the European Council for Cardiovascular Research. He has served as an American Heart Association Scientific Session Abstract reviewer and an Open Fund Young Individual Research Grant Panel Member. Ye has served on the National Medical Research Council in Singapore and the French National Research Agency. He has been a member of eight editorial board services.
He is the principal investigator of three ongoing research projects and has completed five research grants as principal investigator. He has been published more than 100 times in papers and book chapters and is the recipient of several international awards, including the Rabago Prize Award.