FHT webinar at Singapore Institute of Technology

Date: Wednesday, 14 June
Time: 2pm
Zoom link: external pagehttps://singaporetech.zoom.us/j/91788553976call_made

As part of their practical outreach towards the public and prospective partners, FHT will be conducting a webinar with SIT's Health and Social Science cluster on 14 June, 2pm.

Prof. Dr Nicole Wenderoth, FHT Programme Director, Principal Investigator of Connected Rehabilitation Technology and Assistive Devices, and Dr Sowjanya Kallakuri, FHT Associate Director, will be representing programme at the webinar.

Speakers:

Prof. Dr Nicole Wenderoth is professor for Neural Control of Movement in the department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich – the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. She also serves as director of the Institute for Human Movement Sciences and Sport at ETH Zurich.

In Singapore, Prof. Wenderoth leads the Future Health Technology (FHT) programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) as its founding director. The FHT is developing a mobile health technology concept with the aim of transforming the healthcare system towards a community-based and patient-centric model. To achieve this, the FHT will work closely with NUS, NTU, and DukeNUS, as well as Singapore-based clinical partners and government agencies.

Prof. Wenderoth actively pursues translation with the aim to deliver evidence-based concepts and technology for improving rehabilitation training in special populations, such as children with developmental disorders or adult stroke sufferers. Her lab in ETH Zurich works on systems neuroscience with an emphasis on neuromotor control, by developing non-invasive interfaces for measuring and modulating neural processes in the healthy and disordered human brain. In FHT, Prof. Wenderoth is one of the principal investigators developing new Connected Rehabilitation Technology and Assistive Devices.

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Sowjanya Kallakuri graduated with a triple Bachelors in Genetics, Biotechnology and Biochemistry and a Masters in Molecular and Human Genetics in India. She then received her PhD from the German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg in 2010 in Developmental Genetics. She worked at Yale School of Medicine, USA as a postdoctoral associate for a few years before moving to Singapore to continue her research on modelling human diseases in vertebrate and invertebrate model systems at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Sowjanya has a strong interest in healthcare and digitalising healthcare. At Neovation Consultancy Services, she led many medical and scientific projects, and worked as a liaison with the pharmaceutical company’s medical team and external health care professionals including senior professionals and world-renowned key opinion leaders in various therapeutic areas. At SEC, she wishes to continue working on her passion of digitalising healthcare towards a patient-centric model.