Sidney is CEO of Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub and Executive Vice President of Incubation and Startup Management (ISM) division at ETPL. Her team of diagnostics and medical device specialists in DxD Hub focuses on accelerating productisation of innovative diagnostic technologies. Sidney leads ISM to strategize and support start-up activities related to technologies and innovations, including setting up A*STARTCentral, a pioneering deep tech open innovation lab.
A serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in R&D, starting companies and investments prior to joining A*STAR, Sidney continues to be actively involved in med-tech and innovation activities. She is non-executive board member of several medtech companies, is a member of SPRING Singapore’s Network of MedTech Advisors, and serves as a reviewer on various diagnostics and medtech funding schemes.
Sidney was a researcher with A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and a research scholar at The Scripps Research Institute.