Events & Publications
Events
Frontiers in Cancer Science 2025 (5-7 Nov 2025)
Come visit our booth at NUS University Cultural Centre from 5-7 Nov 2025!
Come visit our booth at NUS University Cultural Centre from 5-7 Nov 2025!

N2CR Educational Outreach Programme – Lower Secondary School workshop
We’re pleased to play our part to inspire our younger generation to pursue a career in STEM disciplines!

Extracellular vesicle characterisation workshop – NUSMed MD7 – 2 July 2025

Daiichi Sankyo seminar – NUSMed MD7 – 9 Oct 2024

Stereo-Seq seminar – NUSMed MD6 – 15 July 2024

RNA-Seq Analysis Workshop 2024

China Cancer Awareness Week 2023 (in collaboration with Mirxes and Zao Dx)

Harvard Precision Medicine Core Workshop 2021
NUS ncRNA Symposium 2020

Publications
- Bin Masroni MS, Ling Eng GW, Jeon AJ, Gao Y, Cheng H, Leong SM, Cheong JK, Hue SS, Tan SY. MicroRNA expression signature as a biomarker in the diagnosis of nodal T-cell lymphomas. Cancer Cell Int. 2024 Jan 30;24(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s12935-024-03226-3. PMID: 38291429; PMCID: PMC10826179.
- Jit Kong Cheong. A time for non-coding RNA to shine. Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE) editorial feature https://www.npm.sg/a-time-for-non-coding-rna-to-shine/
- Blandino G, Dinami R, Marcia M, Anastasiadou E, Ryan BM, Palcau AC, Fattore L, Regazzo G, Sestito R, Loria R, Díaz Méndez AB, Cappelletto MC, Pulito C, Monteonofrio L, Calin GA, Sozzi G, Cheong JK, Aharonov R, Ciliberto G. The new world of RNA diagnostics and therapeutics. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Jul 29;42(1):189. doi: 10.1186/s13046-023-02752-8. PMID: 37507791; PMCID: PMC10386627.
- Tan BWQ, Sim WL, Cheong JK, Kuan WS, Tran T, Lim HF. MicroRNAs in chronic airway diseases: Clinical correlation and translational applications. Pharmacol Res. 2020 Oct;160:105045. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2020.105045. Epub 2020 Jun 23. PMID: 32590100.
- Kok VJT, Tang JY, Eng GWL, Tan SY, Chin JTF, Quek CH, Lai WX, Lim TK, Lin Q, Chua JJE, Cheong JK. SFPQ promotes RAS-mutant cancer cell growth by modulating 5′-UTR mediated translational control of CK1α. NAR Cancer. 2022 Sep 27;4(3):zcac027. doi: 10.1093/narcan/zcac027. PMID: 36177382; PMCID: PMC9513841.
- Cheong JK, Rajgor D, Lv Y, Chung KY, Tang YC, Cheng H. Noncoding RNome as Enabling Biomarkers for Precision Health. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Sep 8;23(18):10390. doi: 10.3390/ijms231810390. PMID: 36142304; PMCID: PMC9499633.
- Cheong JK, Tang YC, Zhou L, Cheng H, Too HP. Advances in quantifying circulatory microRNA for early disease detection. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2022 Apr;74:256-262. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.12.007. Epub 2022 Jan 6. PMID: 34999430.
- Eng GWL, Zheng Y, Yap DWT, Teo AYT, Cheong JK. Autophagy and ncRNAs: Dangerous Liaisons in the Crosstalk between the Tumor and Its Microenvironment. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Dec 21;14(1):20. doi: 10.3390/cancers14010020. PMID: 35008183; PMCID: PMC8750064.
- Eng WL, Kok JT and Cheong JK. Micromanaging autophagy with microRNAs to drive cancer metastasis. J Cancer Metastasis Treat. 2019; 5:69. https://doi.org/10.20517/2394-4722.2019.021
- Krishna S, Yim DG, Lakshmanan V, Tirumalai V, Koh JL, Park JE, Cheong JK, Low JL, Lim MJ, Sze SK, Shivaprasad P, Gulyani A, Raghavan S, Palakodeti D, DasGupta R. Dynamic expression of tRNA-derived small RNAs define cellular states. EMBO Rep. 2019 Jul;20(7):e47789. doi: 10.15252/embr.201947789. Epub 2019 Jun 12. PMID: 31267708; PMCID: PMC6607006.