Dr Kenny Ip

Mid-Career
Dr Kenny (Chi Kin) Ip is a molecular neuroscientist and senior research officer at the Children’s Cancer Institute who has extensive expertise in neurophysiology and functional genetics. During his PhD, he was trained by the world-renowned embryologist Professor Patrick Tam (FRS) at CMRI to decipher the complex genetic programs that are critical for brain development. Dr Ip then led research programs at the Garvan Institute to characterise complex brain circuits that actively control metabolic perturbation. Within seven years, he has generated over 20 publications, and many of them were published in high-tier journals like Cell Metabolism, Neuron, eLife, and Development.