(Chan Bee Eng Mary, alias Mary B. CHAN-PARK)

Dr Mary Chan-Park is currently the President Chair Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (2024 onwards) and the 2019 Board of Trustees Chaired Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2019-2024), both at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore). She also holds a joint appointment at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU. She is the Director of the Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering and the Director of the NTU Centre for Aquaculture Research, Innovation and Enterprise (CARIE). She is also an associate editor of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Materials & Interfaces.

She is a Fellow of the America Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. She is the world’s top 2% scientists according to the Stanford University List (in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Polymers) for past several years (incl. 2024).

She has published extensively, with more than 280 papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications (2024, 2019), PNAS (2020), ACS Central Science (2020), Nano Letters (2021), Angewandte Chemie (2020), Nature Materials (2011), Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, JACS, Small, Biomaterials, etc. Her H-index (according to Google scholar) is 72 with 20K+ citations.

Mary is an expert in polymer-cellular membrane interaction. She has discovered novel mechanisms for polymer-membrane interactions. She has also developed various antimicrobial strategies for aquaculture, and also coatings for probiotics and synbiotics.

She is a leader in the field of antibacterial and antibiofilm polymers. Her research expertise is in cationic antimicrobial polymers which are non-toxic and biocompatible.

Her biodegradable antibacterial polymers are being explored as antimicrobial agents to fight diary mastitis, and as device coatings and solutions to fight the global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) public health crisis.

Professor Mary Chan was a pioneer of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering degree program at NTU.

She obtained her BEng (Chemical) and PhD (Polymers) from the National University of Singapore and MIT respectively.