Dr Francesca Lim is a senior consultant with the department of Haematology at the Southeast Asia General Hospital where she leads the clinical immune effector cell therapy programme. She is also the Head of SingHealth Duke NUS Cell Therapy Center which helps to coordinate both clinical and research efforts across the Institutions at SingHealth. She is the first chief medical officer for the advanced cell therapy research institute Southeast Asia, the National GMP facility and was instrumental in leading the team towards GMP certification and manufacturing licence.