Dr Jen Wei Ying graduated with First Class Honours in Medical Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2009. She was awarded the Gibbs prize for outstanding performance in the Final Honour School examination. She completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of Oxford, graduating with distinction in 2012. She was awarded a college exhibition, two book prizes, a research elective prize and undergraduate scholarship (the Glaxo scholarship) for her academic performance while at Oxford. She also conducted tutorials for undergraduate Physiology and Medicine students at St Catherine’s College, Oxford from 2009-2012.

She did her post-graduate medical training in Singapore, completing the Internal Medicine Residency (2016) and Haematology Senior Residency (2019) programmes at the National University Health System. She obtained her Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2015, and Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom in 2019.

In 2023, Dr Jen pursued an advanced sub-specialisation fellowship in leukaemia. She worked in the world-renown Leukemia Department at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the #1 cancer hospital in the United States of America. During her time at MD Anderson, she was active in clinical research into acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), publishing in high-impact journals such as the American Journal of Hematology, the British Journal of Haematology and Cancer, and presenting clinical trial data at major international conferences.

Dr Jen is currently a Consultant with the Department of Haematology-Oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS), and is also involved in teaching and research as a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Medicine at the National University of Singapore - Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is leading the adoption of new technologies to provide better care and improve patient experience at NCIS and the National University Hospital (NUH).