Together with his HistoIndex co-founder, Dr. Gideon Ho, Dean completed prototyping and manufacturing of products for HistoIndex in Singapore and Europe and successfully implemented the products in Singapore, China, Taiwan, and USA. He also established multi-centre clinical trials for the company’s inventions with global clinical key opinion leaders, and successfully coordinated pre-clinical and started clinical validation in Singapore.
Furthermore, Dean established the world’s first stain-free imaging database for fibrosis diseases study in chronic liver and kidney diseases, and implemented it in several countries across Asia and Europe. With his guidance, HistoIndex won the BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscience Industry Emerging Company of the Year Award in 2012.