Christine Cheung is a Nanyang Assistant Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received a PhD in Cardiovascular and Stem Cell Medicine from the University of Cambridge, and a BEng (First Class) from Imperial College London. For her pioneering approach to create organ-specific blood vessels, she was recognized with the Young Investigator Prize from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research. Notably, she is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist and Life Science Fellow of L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellowship. To advance her work, she is an awardee of the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) research grant. She currently serves on the executive committee of Stem Cell Society Singapore.