The Yeoh Seang Aun Prizes (in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases) is established by Dr Yeoh Seang Aun’s family members and friends in 2013. The Prizes are for award to one medical undergraduate student and one medical graduate student annually. The value of each annual award is S$1,000. The Graduate Prize will be awarded to the best medically qualified (MBBS or equivalent) PhD student in the first instance, in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, with the most outstanding research work done in tuberculosis and/or infectious diseases. If there is no suitable awardee who is medically qualified, the application for the award will be open to the rest of the PhD students in the School.The award is governed by the following conditions:
1. Subject to rule 3 below, the Graduate Prize will be awarded to the medically qualified (MBBS or equivalent) PhD student in the School with the most outstanding research done in tuberculosis and/or infectious diseases who fulfilled the following criteria:
a. Possess an MBBS or equivalent degree qualification
b. Research in tuberculosis and/or infectious diseases
c. Presented an abstract in a conference (local or overseas) and/or
d. Published a paper in a journal on tuberculosis or infectious diseases
2. The prize will be awarded by the School on the recommendation of a School appointed Selection Committee and the approval by the Dean.
3. No award will be made unless there is a candidate of sufficient merit.
Winner of the Yeoh Seang Aun Prize in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases for Graduate Students 2023
Ye Yu Chun, Jade, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Influence of glycan structure on colonization of Streptococcus pneumoniae on human respiratory epithelial cells
Winner of the Yeoh Seang Aun Prize in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases for Graduate Students 2022
Nguee Yee Teng Samantha, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lung endothelial cell antigen cross-presentation to CD8+ T cells drives malaria-associated lung injury
Winner of the Yeoh Seang Aun Prize in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases for Graduate Students 2021
Lim Ze Qin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Enterovirus-A71 exploits Peripherin and Rac1 to invade the central nervous system
Winner of the Yeoh Seang Aun Prize in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases for Graduate Students 2020
Saravanan S/O Gunaseelan, Department of Physiology, MARVAS09 acts as a potent inhibitor of Human Enterovirus 71 replication through suppressing viral IRES in vitro and in vivo- a suitable clinical candidate for treating HEV71 infection
Winner of the Yeoh Seang Aun Prize in Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases for Graduate Students 2019
Tong Jie Xin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Investigations on Novel Compounds with High Disruptive Potency Against the Digestive Vacuole and Calcium Homeostasis of the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum
