Dr Leonard Ang is the Medical Director at Lang Eye Centre. He was formerly an Associate Professor at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and NUS, and was the Principal Investigator and Group Leader of the eye stem cell and tissue engineering programmes at SNEC and the Singapore Eye Research Institute. He completed advanced training fellowships at prestigious institutions, including University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan, and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School in USA. Dr Ang helped to pioneer new methods for eye disease treatment, including bioengineering of eye tissues for ocular surface transplantation, new methods of cornea and stem cell transplantation and performed the first series of Boston keratoprosthesis (artificial cornea) transplantations in Singapore. He has won 30 international and local scientific awards, including the Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award, NUS Research Excellence Award and the Singapore Clinician Investigator Award. Dr Ang has written more than 90 articles in international journals and scientific publications as well as 9 book chapters.

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