People: Lian-Ee Ch’ng

Bio

Lian-Ee is a Singaporean native, who received her BA in Biology from Cornell University in 1996. After two and half years as a Research Assistant at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, she decided to pursue her PhD at Tufts University School of Medicine. She joined the lab of Dr. John Coffin, working on the effects of the surrounding chromosome environment on retroviral expression. After completing her PhD in 2006, she returned to Longwood Medical Area as a lab manager in the lab of Dr. Richard Blumberg at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, focusing on musocal immunology. She took a short hiatus after the birth of her second child and subsequently became the Lab Manager in the Fiebiger Lab at Children’s Hospital, working on food allergies for almost two years. She made her way to the corporate world and became Operations Manager at Widestreets Corp, an IT startup. In the spring of 2014, she decided to return to science and joined LMRT as Lab Manager.