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Assistant Professor

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SEOW Wei Jie

Affiliation

  • NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
  • NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)

Research Areas

  • Epidemiology of chronic diseases, particularly cardio-respiratory diseases and lung cancer
  • Environmental health
  • Molecular biomarkers

Teaching Areas

  • Advanced Epidemiology
  • Environmental Health

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
  • MSc, Harvard School of Public Health
  • BSc, National University of Singapore

Awards/Honours

  • National Medical Research Council Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) Clinician Scientist Award (2025)
  • National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Teaching Excellence Award (2024)
  • National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence (2016)
  • American Association for Cancer Research Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award (2015)
  • American Association for Cancer Research Takeda Millennium Scholar-in-Training Award (2014)

Career History

  • Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2016 – present)
  • Research Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA (2015 – 2016)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA (2013 – 2015)

Selected Publications

  • Yin X, Rishida R, Abe SK, Inoue M, Kang D, Seow WJ et al. Association between reproductive factors with lung cancer incidence and mortality: A pooled analysis of over 308,000 females in the Asia cohort consortium. International Journal of Cancer. 2024. 154 (12): 2090-2105.
  • Aik J, Ang, L, Gunther SH, Tang C, Lee JKW, Seow WJ. Climate change and population health in Singapore: a systematic review. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2023. 40: 100947.
  • Ang L, Tan G, van Dam Eijk Y, Seow WJ. Second-hand smoke and fine particulate matter exposures among multi-unit housing residents in Singapore: a pilot study. Environmental Pollution. 2023. 331(Pt 2):121875.
  • Tan YQ, SK Abdur R, Pan WC, Chen YC, Yu L, Seow WJ. Association between microenvironment air quality and cardiovascular health outcomes. Science of the Total Environment. 2020. 716:137027.
  • Seow WJ et al. Metabolomics of lung cancer in never-smoking women in a prospective study of women in Shanghai, China. JAMA Network Open. 2019. 2(9): e1911970.
  • Seow WJ et al. Association between GWAS-identified lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci and EGFR mutations in never-smoking Asian women, and comparison with findings from Western populations. Human Molecular Genetics. 2017. 26 (2): 454-465.
  • Seow WJ et al. Telomere length in white blood cell DNA and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of three prospective cohorts. Cancer Research. 2014. 74; 4090-4098.
  • Seow WJ et al. Arsenic reduction in drinking water and improvement in skin lesions: a follow-up study in Bangladesh. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2012. 121:1733-1738.

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