Rate My Professor Eliza Fong

Eliza Fong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She serves as Principal Investigator at The N.1 Institute for Health and Associate Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore. She is also a Ph.D. Thesis Advisor in the Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme at the NUS Graduate School. Fong earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Bioengineering with First Class Honors from NUS in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University in 2015. During her doctoral studies, she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Med-Into-Grad Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics.

Her research centers on developing bioengineered tumor models and biomaterials to advance cancer research, drug development, and functional precision oncology, with a focus on peritoneal cancers. Fong has received several honors, including the NUS Early Career Award in 2017, the National Medical Research Council Individual Research Grant, the Open Fund Young Individual Research Grant, the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship, and recognition as a finalist for the L’Oréal Singapore For Women In Science National Fellowship. She has also been nominated for Singapore Women’s Weekly Great Women of Our Time and received the Bioscience Research Collaborative Collaborative Shared Prize. Her work contributes to improved in vitro and ex vivo tumor modeling platforms for cancer patients.