Christopher Chen

Dr Christopher Chen is a Senior Clinician-Scientist, Associate Professor at the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Director of the Memory Aging and Cognition Centre, National University Healthcare System.

His pre-clinical studies were at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, and his clinical training was at New College, University of Oxford. He was elected the Janssen Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, London.

Since returning to Singapore, Dr Chen has developed multi-disciplinary research programmes with extensive international collaborations. His major research and clinical interests are in neuroimaging, molecular biology and treatment of stroke and dementia. He has published over 475 peer reviewed papers, is the PI for several clinical trials with cognitive outcomes (ESPRIT-Cog, VITATOPS-Cog, CHIMES, NEURITES and ATHENE) serves on journal editorial boards and has been a member of trial steering committees and advisory panels.

In 2021, Dr Chen was awarded the Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award which is a prestigious award offered by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council to recognise and support internationally renowned and outstanding investigators in Translational and Clinical Research.

Currently, he is President of the Asian Society Against Dementia, Secretary-Treasurer of the Asian & Oceanian Association of Neurology and past-chair of the International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders.