Leah Vardy is a Research Director at the A*STAR Skin Research Labs, Singapore where she served as the covering Executive Director from 2021 to 2023. She did her Ph.D at the ICRF in London followed by postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, US. The Vardy lab focuses on understanding how cellular behaviour in skin is controlled and how this is affected in the context of aging and disease.