Goh Hng Hang, Victor

BSc (Hons), PhD (Sing), FACB (Fellow of the American College of Biochemists, USA), FRCPath (Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK)

Dr Goh is a Research Professor and Head of the Endocrine Research Laboratory of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the National University of Singapore. He is a clinical scientist and has been involved in biomedical research for the last 26 years. He specialises in research into the causes of diseases arsing from hormone dysfunctions. Prof Goh is locally trained and has had further training in London in 1978, and the National Institute of Health, USA from 1983 to 1985. n He has been an advisor to the Special Human Reproduction Programme of Research of the World Health Organisation since 1980 and is currently the Chairman of WHO Regional Advisory Panel (RAP) for the Asia and Pacific Region. Prof Goh is concurrently an active adjunct Senior Scientist with the Defence Medical Research Institute (DMRI) of DSTA. Chairman, DMRI Ethics Committee, and Chairman, Research Committee of the Asian and Pacific Council for the Study of Ageing Males (ACSAM).

Prof Goh is the Principal Investigator of many research projects including a Research into Natural Ageing, the first study of its kind in Asia, and study of human factors especially those concerns with sustained operation, and circadian and sleep/wake cycle for military personnel. He has published and presented more than 350 articles in various fields including, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, gynaecological oncology, prenatal diagnosis, clinical diagnostics, growth hormone and ageing, circadian rhythms and work shift etc. He has won numerous awards including the prestigious Science and Technology Award as a member of the team in NUH, which pioneered the In Vitro Fertilisation Programme in Singapore, the Boerhinger Mannheim’s Gold medal, and the Benjamin Sheares’ Memorial Lecture Gold Medal.

e-mail: obggohhh@nus.edu.sg

Tel: 67724398

Fax: 68723056