Dean of NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in scientific team monitoring H1N1 virus in Singapore

Dean of NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Professor John Wong, together with Ministry of Health's Director of Medical Services Prof K Satku, are leading a national team of scientists and clinicians to monitor the development and make recommendations on refining our strategy and control measures to handle the Influenza A (H1N1-2009) situation in Singapore.

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A novel strain of Influenza A (H1N1) by Dr Hsu Li Yang and Assoc Prof Paul Ananth Tambyah

Over the past couple of weeks, both the traditional and new media have been inundated with reports and commentary on the influenza A(H1N1) epidemic. Popularly termed "swine flu", this novel virus is suspected to have infected people from forty-three countries at the time of writing, with laboratory-confirmed cases in thirteen countries in four continents.

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Camp Simba! - An extraordinary experience for special kids

Cancer is the top killer disease in Singapore. Although support for patients is available, the special emotional needs of children of adult cancer patients often go unrecognized or neglected. Recognizing this, a group of medical students from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS YLLSoM) and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, in collaboration with HCA Hospice Care, organised a two-day camp "Camp Simba" on 30 and 31 May 2009 for 26 children aged between 7 - 15 years, and whose parents are cancer victims.

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NUHS clinician scientists clinch 3 out of 6 research awards to do translational research

Half of this year's six Clinician Scientist Awards has been won by clinician-scientists from the National University Health System.
They are:

• Associate Professor Tai E Shyong of the Department of Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Consultant, Division of Endocrinology, University Medicine Cluster;
• Associate Professor Mahesh Choolani, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, National University Health System;
• Assistant Professor Dan Yock Young, Department of Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medicine Cluster

They received the Clinician Scientist Awards (CSAs) for 2009, together with other winners from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore General Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the National Cancer Centre, adding to the growing pool of clinician scientists (doctors-researchers) in Singapore to drive translational and clinical research development here.

Announcing the award winners, the Ministry of Health and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) said these researchers, who hold dual appointments as medical doctors, will examine clinical questions about diseases in basic research laboratories in order to improve patient care.

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Local researchers explore new approaches to tackle age-old ailments

A*STAR’s Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) and its consortia, namely Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC), Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) and Singapore Stem Cell Consortium (SSCC), have issued more than 50 grants amounting to $36 million to research groups from local universities, research institutes and hospitals this year. The research projects awarded under BMRC’s 7th General Grant Call, SBIC-SIgN Joint Grant Call, SSCC Grant Call and SIgN Grant Call, will potentially develop therapeutics for the treatment of ailments of the immune system, infectious diseases, ageing, cancer, etc.

Our researchers from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine received grants from BMRC to tackle age-old ailments: for eg, Prof Chua Kaw Yan from Department of Paediatrics, Dr Gavin Dawe from the Department of Pharmacology, also a member of the Life Sciences Institute Neurobiology and Ageing Programme, and Prof Shazib Pervaiz from the Department of Physiology as well as the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

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