NUS Medicine Graduate Programme is a research-oriented programme aimed at training competent biomedical scientists and clinician-scientists who will spearhead and drive the medical biotechnology efforts in the industry.
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Walter C. Willett
• Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Co-Chair, EAT-Lancet Commission
• Director, Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Faculty Affiliate, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Former Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, United States
• Author, Nutritional Epidemiology
• Member, MSc NLM Programme Curriculum Committee
Walter C. Willett, a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Director of the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition for 25 years. A globally recognised expert in nutritional epidemiology, his research on diet and chronic disease prevention has shaped public health policies worldwide. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, he has published over 2,000 scientific articles and authored influential books, including Nutritional Epidemiology.
Adj Prof Joanne Yoong Su Yin
• Adjunct Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Founder and Chief Executive, Research for Impact, Singapore
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Economics, Singapore Management University
A/Prof Kenneth Ban
Programme Director, National Supercomputing Cluster Singapore (NSCC)
Assoc Prof, Dept of Biochemistry, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Prof Kenneth Ban graduated from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and completed his PhD in Stanford University, As a medical educator and Phase I Director at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Kenneth is leading the development of a Health Informatics track aiming to build foundational competencies in data science for medical students.
A/Prof Caroline Lee
Vice Dean, NUS Graduate School, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Assoc Prof, Dept of Biochemistry, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Aaron Chua
• Principal Lecturer and Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice, NUS-ISS
A/Prof Jason Yap
• Associate Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
• Director, Public Health Translation, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Prof Seth Gilbert
• Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, NUS School of Computing
• Head, Department of Computer Science, NUS School of Computing
Adj. Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan
• Head, Department of Biomedical Informatics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Head, Artificial Intelligence Office, NUHS
• Head & Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Endocrine & Thyroid Surgery), Department of Surgery, NUH
Dr Aoife Keohane
• Programme Director, MSc in Behavioural and Implementation Sciences
in Health (MSc BIS)
• Senior Lecturer, Centre for Behavioural and Implementation
Science Interventions (BISI) NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Prof Nick Sevdalis
• Academic Director, Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Academic Director (Joint), Quality Improvement & Implementation Science Clinical Academic Group, King's Health Partners, London, UK
Dr Volker Patzel
Biomedical Innovation & Enterprise Course Coordinator
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Dr Volker Patzel is a Senior Lecturer at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and holds a PhD from the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. With more than 20 years of teaching experience, he coordinates six modules at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and leads research on RNA technologies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Dr Patzel has published over 50 papers, filed 15 patent families, and founded AVECRIS Pte Ltd in Singapore.
A/Prof Gautam Sethi
Drug Discovery and Development Specialisation Coordinator
Capstone Project Co-Coordinator
Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmacology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
A/Prof Gautam Sethi is a tenured Associate Professor at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, focusing on oncogenic transcription factor activation and cancer therapy. His work has led to over 400 scientific publications in high-impact journals. A/Prof Sethi is an editorial board member for numerous international journals and has been recognized as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2020 and 2021 by Clarivate.
Dr Sham Lok-To (Chris)
Capstone Project Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Dr Chris Sham is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, where he teaches multiple microbiology-related courses, including Microbiology and Infection and Immunity He also serves as the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme coordinator and the Deputy Research Director of the Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme. His research focuses on bacterial cell envelope synthesis, and in 2019, he received the prestigious National Research Foundation Fellowship.
Dr Png Chin Wen
Vaccinology and Immunotherapy Specialisation Coordinator
Lecturer, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Dr Png Chin Wen earned his PhD from the University of Queensland and is a Lecturer at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, where he teaches topics such as immunology, cellular signaling, and vaccine development. His research focuses on gut microbiome and mucosal inflammation related to gastrointestinal cancers. Dr Png collaborates with clinicians to explore the role of gut bacteria in disease progression and serves as course coordinator for the MSc in Applied Biomedicine’s Vaccinology and Immunotherapy specialisation.
Dr Jaishree Tripathi
Infectious Diseases Management Specialisation Coordinator
Lecturer, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
A/Prof Zhang Yongliang
Co-Programme Director, MSc in Applied Biomedicine (ABM)
Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
A/Prof Zhang Yongliang is a tenured Associate Professor and Deputy Research Director of the Translational Immunology Programme at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. With over 15 years of teaching experience, he has created several programmes focused on infection and cancer. A/Prof Zhang’s contributions to immunology research have earned him recognition, including the Graduate Mentor of the Year award in 2019.
A/Prof Kevin Tan Shyong Wei
Programme Director, MSc in Applied Biomedicine (ABM)
Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Dr Lee Chun Fan
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
Dr Cindy Lin Xinyi
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
Mihir Gandhi
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
A/Prof Edwin Chan
• Associate Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine
• Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Medical School
Prof Cheung Yin Bun
• Professor, Centre for Quantitative Medicine
• Deputy Director, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
Makoto Yawata, M.D., Ph.D.
• Programme Director, Master of Clinical Investigation
• Clinical-Scientist Mentor, Master of Clinical Investigation
• Research Assistant Professor
• Department of Pediatrics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Principal Investigator, Immunology Programme, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore
• Principal Investigator, NUS Medicine Immunology Translational Research Programme, National University of Singapore
Makoto YAWATA is the Director of the MCI Programme, where he also serves as a clinician-scientist mentor guiding the students in designing and planning their clinical studies and as coordinator of the MCI wet lab experiential research workshop. He is affiliated with the Department of Paediatrics at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and a Principal Investigator in the Immunology Programme in the NUS Life Sciences Institute and the NUS Medicine Immunology Translational Research Programme.
His clinical background is autoimmune diseases; however, the research he conducted as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Structural Biology in Stanford University School of Medicine has led him to become more involved in hematology and transplantation. His laboratory has been investigating the mechanisms of human natural killer cell responses against particular types of virus infections and cancer, and also in transplantation immunology.
