1) Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering @ NTU(Singapore)
2) Postdoctoral Fellow for RNA Delivery (now seeking for 2025!)
3) Talented PhD students (RNA Delivery) (now seeking for 2025!)
Teaching	Research	Research Group	Publications by year	Publications by year	Others

We recently obtained a major grant on RNA delivery. We are now actively recruiting talented PHD students and research fellows for the area of “Development of novel RNA Delivery Vehicles with LNPs and Polymers”. Interested parties please email: mbechan@ntu.edu.sg

Chan Bee Eng Mary (alias Mary B. Chan-Park)

President Chair Professor in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (NTU Singapore)

Contact Details
Tel: (65) 6790 6064
Fax: (65) 6794 7553
Email: mbechan@ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
62 Nanyang Drive (NTU Block N1.2)
Singapore 637459
Singapore

Summary Profile

Dr Mary Chan-Park is currently the President Chair Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (2024 onwards) and the 2019 Board of Trustees Chaired Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2019-2024), both at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore). She also holds a joint appointment at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU. She is the Director of the Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering and the Director of the NTU Centre for Aquaculture Research, Innovation and Enterprise (CARIE). She is also an associate editor of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Materials & Interfaces.

She is a Fellow of the America Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. She is the world’s top 2% scientists according to the Stanford University List (in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Polymers) for past several years (incl. 2024).

She has published extensively, with more than 280 papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications (2024, 2019), PNAS (2020), ACS Central Science (2020), Nano Letters (2021), Angewandte Chemie (2020), Nature Materials (2011), Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, JACS, Small, Biomaterials, etc. Her H-index (according to Google scholar) is 72 with 20K+ citations.

Mary is an expert in polymer-cellular membrane interaction. She has discovered novel mechanisms for polymer-membrane interactions. She has also developed various antimicrobial strategies for aquaculture, and also coatings for probiotics and synbiotics.

She is a leader in the field of antibacterial and antibiofilm polymers. Her research expertise is in cationic antimicrobial polymers which are non-toxic and biocompatible. Her biodegradable antibacterial polymers are being explored as antimicrobial agents to fight diary mastitis, and as device coatings and solutions to fight the global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) public health crisis.

She has also recently developed unique cationic polymers that improve the delivery of RNA into the cytosol of cells to improve endosomal escape, a key bottleneck for RNA Delivery.

Professor Mary Chan was a pioneer of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering degree program at NTU.

She obtained her BEng (Chemical) and PhD (Polymers) from the National University of Singapore and MIT in 1986 and 1993 respectively.

We are excited about our research that can improve the society well-being. We welcome talented young students and scientists to join our group on RNA Delivery!

Academic Background

B.Eng (Chem), First Class Honors - National University of Singapore (1986)

Ph.D (Polymers), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) 

Professional Experience

Academic Appointments (2001 onwards)

2024 – now 2019 - 2024 2011 – now	President Chair Professor of Chemistry, Chem. Engr & Biotechnology, NTU Board of Trustee Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU Full professor (tenured), SCBE, NTU
2004 – 2011	Associate Professor (tenured), SCBE, NTU
2004 – 2005	Associate Professor (tenured), Joint Appointment in SCBE and School of Mechanical and Production Engineering (MPE)
2001 – 2004	Associate Professor (without tenure), MPE

Academic Concurrent Appointments (2001 onwards)

2024 - now 2015 - now 2011 – 2013	Director, Laboratory for RNA Delivery Therapeutics Director, Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering @ NTU Acting Chair, SCBE, NTU (concurrent appointment)
2010 – 2011	Associate Chair (Research and External Relations), SCBE (concurrent appointment)
2005 – 2010	Associate Chair (Research and Graduate Studies), SCBE (concurrent appointment)
2010 – 2012	Member, NTU-Imperial College London Joint PhD Program Committee (concurrent appointment)
2004 – 2007	Director, Center of Biotechnology, SCBE (concurrent appointment)
2004 – 2007	Director, Bioprocessing Minor, SCBE (concurrent appointment)

Industrial Positions (2001 and earlier)

1999 – 2001	Senior Technical Manager (from Technical Manager) SiPix Imaging, Milpitas, CA (USA)
1998 – 1999	Manager (Adhesives and Composites) (from Senior Scientist) Triton Systems, Chelmsford, MA (USA)
1994 – 1997	Deputy Director (from Acting Deputy Director, Group Leader and Senior Scientist) Polymer Technology Center, Singapore Institute of Standards & Industrial Research (subsequently Singapore Productivity & Standards Board in 3/96)
1993	Post-doc, MIT (in collaboration with Dow Corning)
1986 – 1988	Engineer, Polymer Technology Center Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research

Awards/Honors

Fellow of the America Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

Top 2% scientists according to the Stanford University List
(in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Polymers) for past several years (incl. 2024).