Outstanding Faculty Researcher Award

Award Winner for year 2003
Assistant Professor Wong Tien Yin
Dept of Ophthalmology

For the last 5 years, Dr Wong has worked on a new area of research, the application of computer-imaging assessment of retinal blood vessel damage to determine whether this damage is associated with risk of heart disease and stroke. Dr Wong's research has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications in the highest-impact medical journals, such as the Lancet and JAMA. He has continued this collaboration with scientists in NUS, the U.S.A and Australia. He is the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of three NIH grants totaling more than US$2 million to fund this research.

Dr Wong is the youngest Editorial Board Member of the British Journal of Ophthalmology, and has received numerous awards, including the Jeans Coombs Awards and the Schitz Award from Johns Hopkins University, the Ten Outstanding Young Person of the World, the BMRC Young Investigator Award and Young Researcher Award 2004.