How Much Heart Is Required To Ignite Innovation?

How much heart is required to ignite innovation? Three science scholars share the roles love can play in their lifelong passion project to advance humanity.

-  Charmaine Tan

Science is a field of optimism - it believes in the change of a once inevitable future. The people fueling its progress dedicate entire livelihoods to loving those beyond their immediate communities, sometimes even loving things and beings that have not been given a name.

How does that willingness to constantly come face-to-face with the unknown develop? How does affection arise in a world of idiosyncrasies, all of which have no guarantee of being resolved? From falling in love with the field to all the pivotal moments in research that have shed new light on the meaning of love, Men's Folio invite three humans of science to share in their words, what to them lies at the heart of science.

Dr Andy Tay

Presidential Young Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Health Innovation & Technology and NUS Tissue Engineering Programme

"To me, loving something or someone means offering committed support during challenging times. This definition comes from growing up in a family that had not been well-to-do, but also seeing several of my extended family members suffer from cancer makes me more driven to develop technologies to treat it.