
Shigeki Sugii
Founder
ImpactFat
Shigeki Sugii leads the Laboratory of Fat Metabolism and Stem Cells at IMCB and SIFBI, A*STAR. He also holds a joint appointment at Duke-NUS Medical School. Shigeki was a Group Leader at different institutes of A*STAR (2011-2021), before joining IMCB. Shigeki graduated with B.S. in Agricultural Chemistry from Kyoto University, Japan and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School, USA. He then conducted his postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. He was a co-founder of Celligenics Pte Ltd and recently founded ImpacFat Pte Ltd in Singapore.