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Neuroscience
Singapore
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
76
Citations
21604
World Ranking
1915
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Eng-Ang Ling is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Developmental Neuroscience.

The scientist's recent research output includes papers published in multiple venues with a focus on topics such as neonatal and fetal brain pathology, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, nerve injury and regeneration, spinal cord injury research, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and pulmonary hypertension research and treatments.

  • Immunomodulatory Mechanism and Potential Therapies for Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage, 2020, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • A biocompatible gelatin sponge scaffold confers robust tissue remodeling after spinal cord injury in a non-human primate model, 2023, Biomaterials
  • AI Learning for Pediatric Right Ventricular Assessment: Development and Validation Across Multiple Centers, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Eng-Ang Ling has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Biomaterials
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's research include:

  • Yingjun Min
  • Fan Li
  • Xiang Zeng
  • Qing-shuai Wei
  • Ji-chao Ye

The broad range of research topics covered by Eng-Ang Ling includes:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Spinal cord injury research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Pulmonary hypertension research and treatments

Best Publications

  • Microglial activation and its implications in the brain diseases.

    S. Thameem Dheen;Charanjit Kaur;Eng-Ang Ling

  • The origin and nature of ramified and amoeboid microglia: a historical review and current concepts.

    Eng-Ang Ling;Wai-Chow Wong

  • Blood–retinal barrier in hypoxic ischaemic conditions: Basic concepts, clinical features and management

    C Kaur;W S Foulds;E A Ling

  • Investigation of glial cells in semithin sections. I. Identification of glial cells in the brain of young rats.

    E. A. Ling;Jean A. Paterson;A. Privat;S. Mori

  • F3/contactin acts as a functional ligand for Notch during oligodendrocyte maturation.

    Qi Dong Hu;Qi Dong Hu;Beng Ti Ang;Beng Ti Ang;Meliha Karsak;Wei Ping Hu

  • Investigation of glial cells in semithin sections. 3. Transformation of subependymal cells into glial cells, as shown by radioautography after 3 H-thymidine injection into the lateral ventricle of the brain of young rats.

    Jean A. Paterson;A. Privat;E. A. Ling;C. P. Leblond

  • Neuronal and microglial response in the retina of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

    Xiao-Xia Zeng;Yee-Kong Ng;Eng-Ang Ling

  • Sirtuin 2, a mammalian homolog of yeast silent information regulator-2 longevity regulator, is an oligodendroglial protein that decelerates cell differentiation through deacetylating alpha-tubulin.

    Wenbo Li;Bin Zhang;Junhong Tang;Qiong Cao

  • Toll-like receptor 4 mediates microglial activation and production of inflammatory mediators in neonatal rat brain following hypoxia: role of TLR4 in hypoxic microglia

    Linli Yao;Linli Yao;Enci Mary Kan;Jia Lu;Aijun Hao

  • Hypoxia-ischemia and retinal ganglion cell damage.

    Charanjit Kaur;Wallace S Foulds;Eng-Ang Ling

  • Blood brain barrier in hypoxic-ischemic conditions.

    Kaur C;Ling Ea

  • Biologically active core/shell nanoparticles self-assembled from cholesterol-terminated PEG-TAT for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier.

    Lihong Liu;Kun Guo;Jia Lu;Subbu S. Venkatraman

  • Investigation of glial cells in semithin sections. II. Variation with age in the numbers of the various glial cell types in rat cortex and corpus callosum

    Eng-Ang Ling;C. P. Leblond

  • Saturated fatty acids activate microglia via Toll-like receptor 4/NF-κB signalling

    Zhen Wang;Dexiang Liu;Fuwu Wang;Shangming Liu

  • The Origin and Nature of Microglia

    Eng-Ang Ling

  • Roles of Activated Microglia in Hypoxia Induced Neuroinflammation in the Developing Brain and the Retina

    Charanjit Kaur;Gurugirijha Rathnasamy;Eng-Ang Ling

  • Systemic inflammatory response following acute traumatic brain injury.

    Jia Lu;Samantha Jianli Goh;Priscilla Ying Lei Tng;Yi Yu Deng

  • Origin of microglia.

    Charanjit Kaur;Ai Jun Hao;Ching Hsiang Wu;Eng Ang Ling

  • Retinoic acid inhibits expression of TNF-alpha and iNOS in activated rat microglia.

    S. Thameem Dheen;Yan Jun;Zhou Yan;Samuel S.W. Tay

  • Retinal microglia – A key player in healthy and diseased retina

    Gurugirijha Rathnasamy;Wallace S. Foulds;Eng-Ang Ling;Charanjit Kaur

  • Use of carbon labeling to demonstrate the role of blood monocytes as precursors of the ‘ameboid cells’ present in the corpus callosum of postnatal rats

    E. A. Ling;Don Penney;C. P. Leblond

Frequent Co-Authors

Annica Dahlström
Annica Dahlström University of Gothenburg
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Zhi-Cheng Xiao
Zhi-Cheng Xiao Monash University
Wutian Wu
Wutian Wu University of Hong Kong
Qian Liu
Qian Liu Chengdu University
Hai-Quan Mao
Hai-Quan Mao Johns Hopkins University
Brian Popko
Brian Popko Northwestern University

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