Estate of medical alumna bequeaths S$6.75M to her alma mater
Published: 29 Dec 2020
The Freda Paul professorship, bursary and student prizes were made possible after legal action by her estate to recover misappropriated funds.
The gift from the estate of the late Dr Freda Paul Malliamalar, a respected paediatrician at the Singapore General Hospital and Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the then Faculty of Medicine, University of Singapore, will enable NUS Medicine to establish a bursary for needy female undergraduate medical students as well as a prize that will be awarded to female undergraduate medical students.
The Professorship that the gift funds will support an entire spectrum of translational research in the areas of paediatrics such as cancer, genetics, immunology, metabolic diseases and cardiac health, as well as studies on disease trends, health outcomes and neurocognitive development problems.
“Dr Freda Paul’s legacy as a renowned paediatrician and her desire to support female medical students throughout their journey of learning will be ensured through this generous bequest, which sees the establishment of the Freda Paul Bursary Fund, Freda Paul Professorship and student prizes,” said the Dean of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Professor Chong Yap Seng.
NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye said, “We are deeply appreciative of this generous gift from the late Dr Freda Paul, which will go a long way towards nurturing the next generation of female medical leaders as well as advancing the field of paediatrics. I hope this gift will also inspire more NUS alumni to impact society by supporting programmes at the University, either through lifetime gifts or a bequest as exemplified by the late Dr Paul.”
Read more in the press release here.
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