JULIANA CHANCEO and publisher, Wildtype Media
DRIVEN BY PURPOSE
Scientist and publisher Juliana Chan is raising the Asian STEM industry’s global profile by harnessing the latest trends in media.
TEXT SHAMILEE VELLU
Talking to the energetic Wildtype Media CEO and publisher, Juliana Chan – also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and holds four US patents – makes you feel like you’re moving in slow motion.
Many media outlets have featured her research on drug delivery and nanomedicine. Pfizer has even licensed one of her patents for commercialisation.
But the Cambridge- and MIT educated scientist arguably made the greatest wave when she left a tenure-track career in biomedical research at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for her other passion: science communication. Chan founded Wildtype Media Group in 2018. Today, it is one of Asia’s leading STEM-focused media companies, spanning digital, print, events, custom publishing and content marketing. The acronym stands for science, technology, engineering and maths.
“It surprised me when many people thought this was a terrible decision,” she says. “Everyone told me the media renaissance was over and that I should get out, not in.”
This story is from the August 2021 edition of The PEAK Singapore.
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