Dr Sun LingLing heads the Healthcare Engineering Centre at the School of Engineering in Temasek Polytechnic. She leads a multi-disciplinary R&D team on developing innovative healthcare devices; such as microfluidic and biosensor based point-of-care systems for disease diagnosis, flexible and wearable sensors for healthcare monitoring, and novel devices and materials for antimicrobial applications.
As a Principle Investigator, Dr Sun has been awarded numerous R&D funds by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Education and Tote Board, and has completed more than 10 R&D projects together with the team since 2012. Under her leadership, the team has been awarded IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2016, MOE-Innergy Award (Silver) 2017, MOE-Innergy Award (Gold) 2018, and MOE-Innergy Award (Bronze) 2019.
Dr Sun received her PhD in Microelectronics from Nanyang Technological University in 2003. Prior to joining Temasek Polytechnic, she worked as a senior engineer at System on Silicon Manufacturing Company and a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University.
An automated point-of-care system which uses nanopillar array based localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) biosensor to enhance the detection sensitivity of procalcitonin (PCT), a biomarker for sepsis diagnosis, with a minimum amount of blood has been developed. The technology developed has been licensed to a local company for commercialization.
A pump-free microfluidic chip with antibody immobilized nitrocellulose (NC) thin film and on-chip bio-reagents storage has been developed for Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) detection. The AMH Detection limit of <0.1ng/ml was achieved.
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