Freddy Boey

Professor Freddy Boey (Chinese: 梅彦昌) was Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from July 2011 to September 2017. Prior to these appointments, he was the Chair of NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering from 2005 to 2010.

A Professor of Materials Engineering, Boey graduated from Monash University, Australia, with a First Class Honours degree in Materials Engineering in 1980. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry and Engineering in 1987 from the National University of Singapore.

Boey’s research areas are in functional biomaterials for medical devices, nanomaterials and nanostructures for cell regeneration, sensing and energy storage. A keen inventor, he has filed 25 original patents with NTU, the majority of which have been licensed. He founded several companies to patent and license his creations, such as a surgical tissue retractor which was licensed to Insightra Medical Inc., Irvine, California, and sold in the United States, India, Japan and Europe.

Boey’s other inventions include a fully biodegradable peripheral cardiovascular stent,micropumps for thermal management solutions in consumer electronic gadgets, microfluidic and biomedical devices a coronary stent with drug release capability, a hernia mesh and cardiac peptides for treating heart diseases. His innovations have garnered him numerous investment funding and research grants.

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