Dr. Lim obtained his basic medical degree from the National University of Singapore in 1985. He obtained his Master of Medicine (surgery) Singapore and the Fellow Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburg) in 1990. Upon his return to Singapore, he was appointed an Adjunct Assistant Professor position to the Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, USA. Dr. Lim served as a consultant Hand Surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital until 2000 June where he was appointed Chief to the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at the National University Hospital (NUH).
His research interests include Wrist Instabilities -Scapholunate and Distal Radial Ulnar Joint instabilities, flexor tendon repairs and training and certification in microsurgery. Dr. Lim is currently in private practice but continues to be a visiting consultant at the National University Hospital.
Dr. Lye is the Director of Business Development (Future Health Care) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also the CEO of SysteMED Private Limited, a medical technology accelerator wholly owned by NTU, and is a partner at Nairos LLC, a medtech consulting firm. Prior to Nairos, Dr. Lye was CTO-founder of Setagon, Inc., a startup which developed several proprietary stent technologies, including a metallic nanoporous surface modification for medical devices such as coronary stents. Setagon obtained over US$5.5 million in venture financing and was acquired by Medtronic.
Dr. Lye is the primary inventor of the acquired technology and has over 28 patents/patent applications. His technical experience includes work in the fields of nanoscale materials, micro-electromechanical systems, and biological nanosystems. He has a B.Sc. (Honors) from the California Institute of Technology, and a PhD from Yale University.